Lentinellus castoreus (Fr.) Kühner & Maire 1934

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Name scientific

Lentinellus castoreus (Fr.) Kühner & Maire, Bull. Soc. Mycol. France 50 16 (1934)

Preferred name

Lentinellus castoreus (Fr.) Kühner & Maire 1934

Taxonomy reference

Petersen, R.H.; Hughes, K.W. 2004: A contribution to a monograph of Lentinellus. Bibliotheca Mycologica. 198.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Uncertain

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Type locality Europe. The name is used sensu lato and applied to at least 4 genetically distinct taxa.

Nomenclature

Authors

(Fr.) Kühner & Maire

Original authors

Fr.

Combination authors

Kühner & Maire

Publication place

Kühner, R.; Maire, R. 1934: Étude de la réaction de la membrane sporique à l'iode dans les divers genres d'Agarics leucosporés. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Mycologique de France 50(1): 9-24.

Year published

1934

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Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lentinus castoreus Fr. 1838

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Lentinellus castoreus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Russulales

Family

Auriscalpiaceae

Genus

Lentinellus

Species

castoreus

Synonyms

Lentinus castoreus Fr. 1838

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Fagus

PDD (1 records from Czech Republic.)

has host

Nothofagaceae

PDD (1 records from New Zealand.)

has host

Nothofagus fusca (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (1 records from New Zealand.)

Descriptions

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

Lentinus castoreus Fr. 1838

Description

Imbricated, sessile but narrowed behind into a more or less pronounced stem-like base, the component pilei narrowly fan-shaped or tongue-shaped, margin narrowly incurved, entire or wavy; sometimes the pelei are resupinate, margin free all round, and the gills radiating from the centre, at others curled to form a funnel-shaped pileus, flexible, even or wrinkled, rufous, then yellowish-tawny, 3-12 cm. long; gills crowded, rather narrow, margin irregular, brownish; spores hyaline, subglobose, 4 µ.

Distribution

Northern Island, New Zealand. Europe, Cuba, United States.

Habitat

On logs, &c.

Notes

Very variable in form and size. The principal distinctive features are the elongated pilei, tan colour, and glabrous pileus. The figure of this species by Fries (Icones, pl. 175, f. 3) is 14 cm. broad and the gills 1 cm. broad; it is, however, usually smaller.

Segedin, B.P. 1996: A new species of Lentinellus (Hericiales, Lentinellaceae) and a revision of taxa attributed to Lentinellus in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 34(2): 249-261.

Lentinus castoreus Fr. 1838

Notes

No New Zealand material could be found by Horak (1971) or by the present author. Lentinellus castoreus (Fr.) Konrad & Maubl. (bas. Lentinus castoreus Fr.) is generally regarded as a synonym of L. ursinus (Miller & Stewart 1971; Pegler 1983; Breitenbach & Kranzlin 1991).