Leratiomyces erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Beever & D.-C. Park 2008

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Name scientific

Leratiomyces erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Beever & D.-C. Park, Mycotaxon 103 116 (2008)

Preferred name

Leratiomyces erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Beever & D.-C. Park 2008

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Authors

(Tul. & C. Tul.) Beever & D.-C. Park

Original authors

Tul. & C. Tul.

Combination authors

Beever & D.-C. Park

Publication place

Bridge, P.D.; Spooner, B.M.; Beever, R.E.; Park, D.-C. 2008: Taxonomy of the fungus commonly known as Stropharia aurantiaca, with new combinations in Leratiomyces. Mycotaxon 103: 109-121.

Year published

2008

Publication page

116

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Secotium erythrocephalum Tul. & C. Tul. 1844

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Leratiomyces erythrocephalus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Strophariaceae

Genus

Leratiomyces

Species

erythrocephalus

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Scarlet Pouch

Synonyms

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Beilschmiedia tawa (A.Cunn.) Kirk

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Casuarina

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Celmisia sessiliflora Hook.f. 1864

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea dealbata (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea medullaris (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (A.Rich.) de Laub.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dacrydium cupressinum Lamb.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dysoxylum spectabile (G.Forst.) Hook.f.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Eucalyptus nitens (H.Deane & Maiden) Maiden

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps. 1983

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum ericoides

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Melicytus ramiflorus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Myrtaceae

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus solandri (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pinus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pinus radiata D.Don

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Podocarpus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Quercus robur L.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Cooke, M.C. 1879: New Zealand fungi. Grevillea 8(46): 54-68.

Secotium erythrocephalum Tul. & C. Tul. 1844

Collections Examined

In grassy places. Banks' Peninsula, Waitaki, Dunedin, Maungaroa, Wellington (Mr. Travers).

Cunningham, G.H. 1924: A critical revision of the Australian and New Zealand species of the genus Secotium. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(2): 97-119.

Secotium erythrocephalum Tul. & C. Tul. 1844

Collections Examined

Distribution.-Tasmania; N.Z. (Herb. Nos. 120, 610, 938, 1097). Common throughout the lowland forests of New Zealand.

Description

Peridium scarlet, globose, depressed-globose or ovate, apex obtuse or rounded, base excavated, truncate or decurrent, 2-4 cm. high, up to 6 cm. wide, smooth, frequently somewhat lobed, glabrous, shining, often slightly viscid; retaining its colour when dried. Stipe bright yellow, slender, up to 10 cm. long, 3-10 mm. thick, equal, smooth or fibrillose, often polished, hollow; columella slightly expanded at the apex. Gleba ferruginous, cellular, cells polygonal or slightly elongate, up to 3 mm. long, numerous, dissepiments thin. Spores smooth, pallid ferruginous, elliptical or elliptic-ovate, bluntly pointed at one or both ends, 12-25 x 7-11 µ, (Tulasne, 12 x 5 µ; Massee 10-11 x 5 µ; Lloyd, about 12 x 6 µ).

Habitat

Habitat.-Gregarious or solitary on decaying wood on the forest floor.

Notes

I have collected this species at Auckland, Hamilton, Cambridge, Rotorua, Te Aroha (Auckland Province) ; Weraroa, Mt. Waiopehu, York Bay and Botanical Gardens (Wellington Province) ; and have received collections from Peel Forest (from Dr. H. H. Allan), and Governors Bay (from Mr. J. F. Tapley), Canterbury Province; and Dun Mt., Nelson Province (from Mr. J. C. Neill). It is not confined to the forest, for several collections have been obtained from flower gardens, especially where these have been at one,time in forest. It is commonly stated that this species grows on the ground; but although I have collected hundreds of these plants, I have always found them to be attached to decaying wood.
The scarlet colour of the peridium separates this from any other species, but in glebal and spore characters it is closely allied to S. virescens and S. superbum.
The spore measurements I have given are much greater than those given by other writers. But with certain large forms found here, spores of a length of 25 µ are not uncommon. I believe that it would be inadvisable to separate these forms, for they are identical in all other respects. Furthermore, intermediate stages, in which the spores vary in size between the large and small spore forms, are not uncommon.
This species was named by Tulasne from material collected at Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, by Raoul, now preserved in the museum herbarium at Paris.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Clavogaster erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Lintott 1977

Clavogaster erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Lintott 1977

Anon.

Clavogaster erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Lintott 1977

Clavogaster erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Lintott (1977)

Lintott, W.H.

Leratiomyces erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Beever & D.-C. Park 2008

Leratiomyces erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Beever & D.-C. Park (2008)

Bridge, P.D.; Spooner, B.M.; Beever, R.E.; Park, D.-C. (2008)

Leratiomyces erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Beever & D.-C. Park 2008

Leratiomyces erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Beever & D.-C. Park (2008)

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)

Secotium agaricoides sensu Hollós 1902

Secotium agaricoides sensu Hollós 1902

Cunningham, G.H. (1944)

Secotium agaricoides sensu Hollós 1902

Secotium agaricoides sensu Hollós (1902)

Hollós, L. (1902)

Secotium agaricoides sensu Hollós 1902

Secotium agaricoides sensu Hollós (1902)

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)

Leratiomyces erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Beever & D.-C. Park 2008

Secotium czerniaievii sensu Colenso 1891 [1890]

Secotium czerniaievii sensu Colenso (1891) [1890]

Colenso, W. (1891)

Secotium czerniaievii sensu Colenso 1891 [1890]

Secotium czerniaievii sensu Colenso (1891) [1890]

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)

Leratiomyces erythrocephalus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Beever & D.-C. Park 2008

Secotium erythrocephalum Tul. & C. Tul. 1844