Tricholoma rutilans sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
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Tricholoma rutilans sensu Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 335 (1899 [1898])
Nomenclature
Massee
Massee
1899
1898
335
misapplication
ICN
Tricholoma rutilans sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
species
Tricholoma rutilans
Classification
Descriptions
Tricholoma rutilans sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Tricholoma rutilans (Fries) (8,16) Fig. 24 = Gymnopilus crociphyllus (Cooke and Massee) Pegler
All characters of this collection (COLENSO b 972) correspond well with the type. It occurs both in Australia and New Zealand.
Tricholoma rutilans sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Pileus ovato-globose, obtuse, with the margin incurved, and entirely covered with a dense unbroken coating of dark-purple or reddish-brown velvety nap, when young; when older becoming campanulate and often umbonate, purple, all one colour; at maturity expanded, often umbonate, the cuticle broken up into small purple innate fascicles of down on a yellow ground; always dry, 6-14 cm. diameter; flesh thick, soft, deep-yellow from the earliest stage, becoming golden-yellow when broken; gills broadly adnexed, yellow from the first, crowded, edge thickened, floccose, and deeper yellow than the rest of the gill; spores subglobose, 5-6 µ diameter; stem 5-9 cm. long, up to 2 cm. thick, fleshy, imperfectly hollow, soft, rather bulbous when short, ventricose when elongated, yellow, variegated, especially upwards, with purplish floccose squamules.
New Zealand. Australia, Europe, United States.
On the ground.
Inodorous ; size very variable. Readily distinguished by the yellow flesh and gills.
Taxonomic concepts
Tricholoma rutilans sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Tricholoma rutilans sensu Massee (1899) [1898]
Tricholoma rutilans sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Tricholoma rutilans sensu Massee (1899) [1898]
Tricholoma rutilans sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Tricholoma rutilans sensu Massee (1899) [1898]
Notes
taxonomic status
Early N.Z. material labelled as Tricholoma rutilans (Colenso b972) = Gymnopilus crociphyllus, fide Horak 1971b, p. 452.
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Names_Fungi
30 April 2001
30 April 2001