Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955

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Name scientific

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

Preferred name

Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Original authors

Dennis

Authors

Dennis

Publication place

Dennis, R.W.G. 1955: New or interesting Queensland Agaricales. Kew Bulletin 1955(1): 107-110.

Year published

1955

Publication page

107

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Mycena leaiana var. australis Dennis 1955

Type locality

Australia

Taxonomic rank

var.

Canonical form

Mycena leaiana var. australis

Typification

Type Australia, Queensland

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Mycenaceae

Genus

Mycena

Species

leaiana

Synonyms

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Beilschmiedia tawa (A.Cunn.) Kirk

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dacrydium cupressinum Lamb.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Horak, E. 1971: A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462.

Flammulina glutinosa G. Stev. 1964

Notes

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.

Johnston, P.R. 2010: Kew Type Specimens - images and notes from P.R. Johnston, 2010.

Flammulina glutinosa G. Stev. 1964

Notes

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

Stevenson, G. 1964: The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.

Flammulina glutinosa G. Stev. 1964

Description

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.

Habitat

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.

Latin

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.

Notes

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.

Typification

Typus: Stevenson 467.