Leptonia placida sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Details

Name scientific

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

Preferred name

Pluteus readiarum G. Stev. 1962

Taxonomy reference

Horak, E. 2008: Agaricales (Basidiomycota) of New Zealand. 1. Pluteaceae (Pluteus, Volvariella), Entolomataceae (Clitopilus, Entoloma, Pouzarella, Rhodocybe, Richoniella). Fungi of New Zealand. 5. Fungal Diversity Press.

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 placida sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Based on

Leptonia placida (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Leptonia placida

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Entolomataceae

Genus

Leptonia

Species

placida

Descriptions

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

Leptonia placida sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Description

Pileus 2-6 cm. across, flesh thin, campanulate, then convex, not striate, the blackish disc densely downy, the remainder covered with blackish fibrils or squamules on a greyish-white ground, squamules arranged concentrically when old; gills adnexed, very broad behind, not ventricose, crowded, whitish, as is also the margin; stem 5-8 cm. long, 3 mm. thick, equal, very rigid, having white meal at the slightly thickened apex, and with black points or squamules when seen under a lens, remainder glabrous, even, dark-blue or blackish-blue.

Distribution

New Zealand. Europe.

Habitat

On trunks or on the ground.

Notes

Distinguished from Leptonia lampropoda by the squamulose pileus and the minute black points on the upper part of the stem.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Leptonia placida sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Leptonia placida sensu Massee

Horak, E. (2008)

Pluteus readiarum G. Stev. 1962

Leptonia placida sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Leptonia placida sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Massee, G.E. (1899)

Leptonia placida sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Leptonia placida sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

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

Pluteus readiarum G. Stev. 1962

Metadata

Record id

1cb1d3ab-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Fungi

Date added

30 March 2001

Date last updated

19 April 2012

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