Hygrophorus pseudococcineus sensu G. Stev. 1963 [1962]

Details

Name scientific

Hygrophorus pseudococcineus sensu G. Stev., Kew Bull. 16 379 (1963 [1962])

Preferred name

Hygrocybe firma (Berk. & Broome) Singer 1958 [1957]

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

G. Stev.

Authors

G. Stev.

Publication place

Stevenson, G. 1963: The Agaricales of New Zealand: IV. Kew Bulletin 16(3): 373–384.

Year published

1963

Year on publication

1962

Publication page

379

Nomenclatural status

misapplication

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hygrophorus pseudococcineus sensu G. Stev. 1963 [1962]

Based on

Hygrophorus pseudococcineus Hongo 1955

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hygrophorus pseudococcineus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hygrophoraceae

Genus

Hygrophorus

Species

pseudococcineus

Descriptions

Stevenson, G. 1963: The Agaricales of New Zealand: IV. Kew Bulletin 16(3): 373–384.

Hygrophorus pseudococcineus sensu G. Stev. 1963 [1962]

Description

Pileus 2-3 cm. diam., brilliant red with orange margin, dotted centrally with orange or yellow fibrils, plano-convex; flesh waxy, red. Gills adnate to slightly decurrent, reddish orange with yellow margins, thick and sometimes wrinkled, moderately distant. Stipe 4-5 cm X 4-5 mm., brilliant red, yellow at base, hollow, sometimes twisted. Spores 15 X 8-9 µm., ovoid, hyaline, thin-walled (Fig. 2/8.).

Habitat

habitat: in mountain forests under Nothofagus etc., Levin, 15.5.1948, Stevenson, Rotoiti, 16.5.1956, E. Kidson.

Notes

The writer considers that this commonly collected New Zealand fungus is clearly referable to the Japanese species, though the New Zealand form appears to be larger with a more slender stipe.