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Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome 1883

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Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot., Ser. 2 2 55 (1883)
Omphalotus olearius (DC.) Singer
Grgurinovic, C.A. 1997: Larger Fungi of South Australia. Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium & .

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Berk. & Broome
Berk. & Broome
Berkeley, M.J.; Broome, C.E. 1883: List of fungi from Brisbane, Queensland; with descriptions of new species. Part II. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2: 53-73.
1883
55
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Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome 1883
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Panus incandescens

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Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Polyporales
Panaceae
Panus
incandescens

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

Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome 1883

Entirely whitish or dingy; pileus varying from umbilicate to deeply funnel-shaped, glabrous, but very minutely wrinkled or virgate, margin persistently incurved, 4-10 cm. across, often very irregular in form; flesh thick at the disc, whitish, tough gills deeply decurrent and running as very fine lines almost to the base of the stem, thin, narrow, rather crowded; spores 7 x 4 µ; stem 2-4 cm. high, up to 8 mm. thick, slightly narrowed downwards.
New Zealand. Australia.
On logs, or on the ground, springing from buried wood.
Remarkable for being very luminous at night. Tufted and often irregular; variable in size.

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Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome 1883
Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome (1883)
Berkeley, M.J.; Broome, C.E. (1883)
Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome 1883
Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome (1883)
Buchanan, P.K.; Ryvarden, L. (2000)
Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome 1883
Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome 1883
Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome 1883
Grgurinovic, C.A. (1997)
Omphalotus olearius (DC.) Singer
Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome 1883
Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome (1883)
Massee, G.E. (1899)

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31 July 2001
30 October 2023
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