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Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955

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Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis, Kew Bull. 1955 107 (1955)
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Dennis
Dennis
1955
107
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Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955
Australia
var.
Mycena leaiana var. australis
The variety is only 90% similar to the species based on ITS. If accepted as a species then the correct name is M. glutinosa [JAC]

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Flammulina glutinosa Stevenson (29 D) Fig. 11 = Mycena leiana (Berkeley) Saccardo.

This is a unique, glutinous, deep orange coloured Mycena known only from North America. We compared the New Zealand specimen with material collected in the U.S. and did not find a single character separating the two. It may well be that M. leiana was accidentally introduced into New Zealand and should therefore be tentatively included in the list of the adventitious fungi.

Pileus 1.5-2.5 cm diam., hygrophanous, fuscous, striate at margin, drying to olive buff, convex with or without a central dimple, exceedingly glutinous; flesh thin, fuscous to buff. Gills sinuately adnexed to adnate, orange to deep chrome yellow, thin, moderately crowded. Stipe 2-3 cm x 2-3 mm, fuscous to olive buff or orange towards the top, exceedingly glutinous, hollow. Spores 8-9 x 5 µm, non-amyloid, hyaline, thin-walled (Fig. 12); print white; sterile gill edge of loosely woven hyphae and sonic balloon cystidia with clear yellow contents. Cystidia not seen on gill faces. Basidia normal, 6 x 20 µm.
On fallen rotting wood, Otari, 12.7.1946, Tararuas, Levin, 3.5.1947 & 14.5.1948, Waikanae, 1.4.1949 (type), Levin, 22.6.1958; all Stevenson.
Pileus 1.5-2.5 cm diam., hygrophanus, fuscus, margine striatus, exsiccando olivaceo-bubalinus, convexus, gelasino centrali interdum praeditus, quam maxime glutinosus; came tenui, fusca usque bubalina. Lamellae sinuato-adnexae usque adnatae, aurantiacae usque intense chromo-luteae, tenues, modice confertae. Stipes 2-3 cm x 2-3 mm, fuscus usque olivaceo-bubalinus vel apicem versus aurantiacus, quam maxime glutinosus, cavus. Sporae 8-9 x 5 µm, haud amyloideae, hyalinae, parietibus tenuibus; in cumulo albae; lamellae acies sterilis ex hyphis laxe intertextis et cystidiis nonnullis vesicularibus cytoplasmate claro luteo incluso sistens. Cystidia in lamellarum superficie haud visa. Basidia normalia, 6 x 20 µm.
Although this fungus has no cystidia on the gill faces or surface of the cap its affinities appear to the writer sufficient to place it in Flammulina. It also appears to have affinities with Tricholomopsis in the yellow gills with sterile margins.
Typus: Stevenson 467.

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Flammulina glutinosa G. Stev. (1964)
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955
Mycena leaiana sensu auct. NZ
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955
Mycena leaiana sensu auct. NZ
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis (1955)
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis (1955)
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis (1955)
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955
Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis (1955)

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Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955
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typification
The variety is only 90% similar to the species based on ITS. If accepted as a species then the correct name is M. glutinosa [JAC]

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11 February 2003
11 February 2003
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