Agrocybe temulenta (Fr.) Singer 1936

Details

Name scientific

Agrocybe temulenta (Fr.) Singer, Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 56 167 (1936)

Preferred name

Agrocybe pediades (Fr.) Fayod 1889

Taxonomy reference

Legon, N.W.; Henrici, A. 2005: Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota. Kew.

Nomenclature

Authors

(Fr.) Singer

Original authors

Fr.

Combination authors

Singer

Publication place

Singer, R. 1936: Studien zur Systematik der Basidiomyceten. II. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 56: 157-174.

Year published

1936

Publication page

167

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Agaricus temulentus Fr. 1821

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Agrocybe temulenta

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hymenogastraceae

Genus

Agrocybe

Species

temulenta

Descriptions

Watling, R.; Taylor, G.M. 1987: Observations on the Bolbitiaceae: 27. Preliminary account of the Bolbitiaceae of New Zealand. Bibliotheca Mycologica. 117.

Agrocybe temulenta (Fr.) Singer 1936

Notes

This species is recorded in both Colenso (1890), and Massee (1898).

A. temulenta is sporadically recorded in Europe in grassy places, often in previously disturbed areas and one of us (RW) has seen a recent collection from North America (New York State). It is easily recognised when young by the uniformly bright ochraceous yellow pileus and stipe, which fade and become flushed with saffron, and the stuffed stipe with tough cortex. The basidiospores, (10.5-)11-13(-14.5) x (6.5-)7.5-8.5(-9) µm, are ellipsoid and basidia 2-or 4-spored.