Coprinopsis stercorea (Fr.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo 2001

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Name scientific

Coprinopsis stercorea (Fr.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo in Redhead et al., Taxon 50 231 (2001)

Preferred name

Coprinopsis stercorea (Fr.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo 2001

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Authors

(Fr.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo

Original authors

Fr.

Combination authors

Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo

Publication place

Redhead, S.A.; Vilgalys, R.; Moncalvo, J.M.; Johnson, J.; Hopple, J.S. 2001: Coprinus Pers. and the disposition of Coprinus species sensu lato. Taxon 50(1): 203-241.

Year published

2001

Publication page

231

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Coprinus stercoreus Fr. 1838

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Coprinopsis stercorea

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Psathyrellaceae

Genus

Coprinopsis

Species

stercorea

Synonyms

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Fungi Whittaker 1959

PDD (1 records from Australia.)

Descriptions

Berkeley, M.J. Fungi. In: Hooker, J.D. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless Plants. Lovell Reeve. 172-210, 338.

Coprinus colensoi Berk. 1855

Description

Coprinus colensoi, Berk.; pusillus, niveus, pileo e cylindrico subcampanulato furfuraceo, stipite gracili tomentoso, sporis minoribus. HAB . On dung, Colenso, no. 5293 . Subfasciculate. Pileus scarcely exceeding a line in height, cylindrical, obtuse, at length subcampanulate, white furfuraceous. Stem slender, 1/4-3/4 inch high, tomentose. Gills linear. Spores oblong, 1/3500 of an inch long. Differs from. C. niveus in its small size, and much smaller spores : those in C. niveus, at least in American specimens, are not less than 1/2000 of an inch long.

Horak, E. 1971: A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462.

Coprinus colensoi Berk. 1855

Notes

Fig. 4 The type specimen (BERKELEY 5293) is well preserved. The spores of this small Coprinus, only 1-2 cm high, measure 7-8 X 3.5-4 µ and have a broad apical germ-pore. The globular cells of the veil (20-50 µ diam.) on top of the pileus are densely but minutely warted. These peculiarities put C. colensoi into sect. Vestiti (Lange) Kuhner and Romagnesi.

Johnston, P.R. 2010: Kew Type Specimens - images and notes from P.R. Johnston, 2010.

Coprinus colensoi Berk. 1855

Notes

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

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

Coprinus colensoi Berk. 1855

Description

Pileus cylindrical, obtuse, then campanulate, very thin, covered with snow-white scurfy meal, below the meal greyish and slightly striate, ½ to 3/4 cm. high; gills narrow, black; spores blackish-brown, elliptic-oblong, 0.7 µ long; stem 1.5-4 cm. long, slender, tomentose, white.

Distribution

Northern Island, New Zealand.

Habitat

On dung; subfasciculate.

Notes

A pretty little endemic species, allied to Coprinus niveus, but smaller, and the pileus not so cottony in its covering or veil.