Leptonia aethiops sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Details

Name scientific

Leptonia aethiops sensu Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 313 (1899 [1898])

Preferred name

Entoloma aethiops sensu G. Stev. 1962

Taxonomy reference

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. 2001: A nomenclatural checklist of agarics, boletes, and related secotioid and gasteromycetous fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39(2): 285-348.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Massee

Authors

Massee

Publication place

Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Year published

1899

Year on publication

1898

Publication page

313

Nomenclatural status

misapplication

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Leptonia aethiops sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Based on

Leptonia aethiops (Scop.) Gillet 1876

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Leptonia aethiops

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Entolomataceae

Genus

Leptonia

Species

aethiops

Descriptions

Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Leptonia aethiops sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Description

Pileus 1.5-2.5 cm. across, flesh thin, plane, then depressed, not striate, fibrillosely virgate, shininig, sooty-black, not hygrophanous, but young specimens are black and shining when dry ; gills adnexed or adnate, straight or ventricose, whitish, edge same colour and quite entire; stem 3-5 cm. long, hardly a line thick, glabrous, blackish-brown, having black points near the top; spores irregularly nodulose, salmon-colour, 10 x 7 µ.

Distribution

New Zealand. Europe.

Habitat

Among grass, on the ground.

Notes

Distinguished from its ally, Leptonia lampropoda, by the pileus being depressed from the first, and the slender stem with black points at its apex.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Leptonia aethiops sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Leptonia aethiops sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Massee, G.E. (1899)

Leptonia aethiops sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Leptonia aethiops sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)

Entoloma aethiops sensu G. Stev. 1962

Notes

Note type

taxonomic status

Note text

= an Entoloma sp., not conspecific with Entoloma aethiops, fide Horak, 1971

Metadata

Record id

1cb1d3a6-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Fungi

Date added

29 March 2001

Date last updated

11 July 2001

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