[GS] Pileus 1-2 cm. diam., dull white tinged fawn and green, orbicular to reniform with overlapping auricles, velvety to finely fibrillose; flesh thin, gelatinous, greyish. Gills adnate or radiating from point of attachment, distant, thick and soft. Stipe 2-5 X 1-2 mm., lateral, dark-green, fibrillose with fibrillose basal disc; or absent. Spores 8-10 X 4-5um non-amyloid, minutely rough, thin-walled (Fig. 1/45, p. 10). Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus of loosely woven hyphae embedded in mucilage. HABITAT: on fallen twigs, Levin, 27.10.1947, Stevenson; Nelson, 17.4.1956, Dorothy Read in Stevenson (type); & Keith George Park, Wellington, 26.6.1958, Stevenson. [EH] The almond-shaped spores (10.5-12 X 5.5-6 um), structure of the cuticle, and habit of the fungus, place this species in Delicatula rather than Resupinatus. [Segedin] = Campanella tristis. [JAC] Pileipellis stronly diverticulate, hyphae with hyaline zebroid encrustation, clamped. With thin-walled, variable cheilocystidia. Exactly agreeing with Segedin's redescription of C. tristis and the synonymy is confirmed.

[GS] Pileus 4-6 X 3-4 cm., pinkish fawn with or without green or grey tints, glistening viscid at first drying smooth and striate, orbicular with somewhat crenulate and waved margin. Gills adnate, concolorous, moderately distant. Stipe 5-8 X 4-5 mm., lateral, pinkish fawn, smooth. Spores 8-10 x 3-4um amyloid (Fig. 2/4, p. 37). Hymenophoral trama of mainly regular hyphae with clamp connections, including some thick-walled hyphae. Cuticle of loosely woven almost parallel thin-walled hyphae. HABITAT: on fallen wood, Mt. Egmont, 16.6.1948, Stevenson; & Leith Saddle, Dunedin, 20.6.1953, Stevenson (type). [EH] = Pleurotopsis subgrisea (Stevenson) Horak [JAC] In my opinion roseola and subgrisea are just colour variants of Scytinotis longuinquus. On the label Greta has written 'green-pink tint' contradicting the formal description, but adding to the view that colour is variable. Spores cylindrical, amyloid, collapsing. Hymeniium without observed cystidia. 4-spored. Tissue tough, not squashing easily.Context with thick-walled hyphae. Spores from gill length=6.6–9.7µm (µ=8.4, σ=0.82), width=3.1–4.0µm (µ=3.5, σ=0.26), Q=1.9–2.8µm (µ=2.41, σ=0.25), n=20. Petersen, for NZ collections of S. longuinquus measured 5.9-(6.6)-7.2 x 3.5-4 (Q=1.83), and 6.6-(7.53)-8.6 x 3.5-4.1 (Q=1.96). The Pacific coast collections with larger spores. By contrast P. stypticus has much smaller spores in the range 3-5 x 1.5-2.5.

[GS] Pileus 2.5-3.5 cm. diam., reddish brown, orbicular to ovate with downrolled margin, subfibrillose; flesh concolorous, tough gelatinous. Gills decurrent, moderately crowded, shallow, fawn. Stipe 0.5-1 X 0.2-0.7 cm., lateral or markedly excentric, concolorous, velutinate. Spores 7-8um diam., non-amyloid, globose, thin-walled (Fig. 1/47, p. 10). Hymenophoral trama and cuticle of loosely woven, partly gelatinized hyphae. HABITAT: on fallen JVothofagus menziesii, Nelson, 6.7.1949, A. Crawford in Stevenson (type). [Buchanan et al] In his revision of the Agaricales of New Zealand, Horak (1971) appears to have been confused by the same epithet having been applied by Stevenson (1964) to two pleurotoid fungi, namely Lentinellus crawfordii and Resupinatus crawfordii. In his list, Horak (1971) cited Resupinatus (Lentinellus) crawfordii, seeming to indicate that he considered the two species to be the same. He noted that 'the identification of Stevenson cannot be confirmed because carpophores of the type material are sterile.' As shown above, Lentinellus crawfordii is easily recognised and a good species. However, the type material of R. crawfordii (Stevenson 718, on fallen Nothofagus menziesii, Nelson, A.Crawford, 6. vii. 1949, K) is certainly in a poor state, and little detail of the hymenium could be gleaned. Spores were found, however, which were short cylindric to slightly allantoid and strongly amyloid, and there were densely staining amyloid remains of spores clinging to the hymenium. The cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia are difficult to determine accurately, but the lamellar edge is sterile and appears to consist of short, clavate cheilocystidia. The trama is dense, of more or less parallel, thickish-walled hyphae of 3-5 um diameter. The subhymenium is cellular, very densely compacted of narrow, somewhat thick-walled hyphae. The context is of very narrow (2-3 um in diameter), loosely interwoven hyphae with large clamp connections. The pileipellis appears to be only little differentiated, with repent hyphae with coiled, slightly inflated hyphal endings. The stipe is short and stout, with distinctly velvety to fibrillose surface. The fibrils are made up of bundles of narrow hyphae, or the surface of the stipe may be covered with short caulocystidia. The fungus can be readily identified as a species of Panellus. The size of the spores, the absence of distinctive cheilocystidia, and the thin-walled pileipellis as well as the more robust form of the basidiome distinguish it from Panellus stypticus (Bull.: Fr.) P. Karst. which is also present in New Zealand and described by Petersen and Bermudes (1992). The new combination proposed for this fungus is Panellus crawfordii. [JAC] The pileipellis is a dense cutis of long thin clamped hyphae over a gelatinized subpellis. Spores amyloid length=6.0–9.4µm (µ=7.4, σ=0.72), width=3.3–4.5µm (µ=3.9, σ=0.31), Q=1.6–2.2µm (µ=1.90, σ=0.16), n=20. Lamella without cystidia, trama with long elements like pileipellis. The macro and micro moprhology confirm my earlier suspicion that this is yeat another synonym of Scytinotus longuinquus.

Panellus cremeus Stevenson (29 D) Fig. 5 = Pleurotopsis subgrisea (Stevenson) Horak.

Panellus fulgens Stevenson (29D) Fig. 10 = Pleurotopsis subgrisea (Stevenson) Horak (see there)

The identification of Stevenson cannot be confirmed because carpophores of the type material are sterile.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Other Stevenson collection in K, GS 314, 315

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.