Laccaria laccata var. pallidifolia (Peck) Peck 1912
Details
Biostatus
Nomenclature
Classification
Synonyms
- Agaricus ohiensis Mont. 1856
- Clitocybe laccata var. pallidifolia Peck 1890 [1889]
- Laccaria ohiensis (Mont.) Singer 1946
- Laccaria tetraspora f. major Singer 1967
- Laccaria tetraspora Singer 1946
- Laccaria tetraspora Singer 1946 f. tetraspora
- Laccaria tetraspora Singer 1946 var. tetraspora
- Laccaria tetraspora var. major (Singer) Bon & Haluwyn 1984
Associations
Descriptions
New Zealand collections agree closely with the type description of Laccaria tetraspora, and with a later description of the species by Singer (1952). In a subsequent publication. Singer (1967) recognised seven varieties and two forms of L. tetraspora, based primarily on spore size, height of spore ornamentation, and size of fructifications. New Zealand specimens fit readily within Singer's concept of var. tetraspora f. tetraspora, a taxon also occurring in Nothofagus areas of South America.
Laccaria tetraspora has often been confused with L. laccata. In a discussion of the identity of L. laccata. Singer (1967) concluded that L. laccata var. laccata as interpreted by. Fries was a small, reddish brown species with a cap to 3 cm diam. and a stipe to 8 cm long. It possessed finely echinulate, subglobose to short-elliptical spores 8.5-9.5 X 6.7-8 µm, with spines rarely more than 1 µm long. Thus L. tetraspora differs from L. laccata in the larger, globose to subglobose spores with spines to 2 µm long.
L. tetraspora f. tetraspora is characterised by the small fructifications, subglabrous to inconspicuously longitudinally fibrillose stipe, and globose to subglobose, moderately echinulate spores. The species has not previously been recorded from New Zealand, and its presence in undisturbed Nothofagus forest suggests that it is an indigenous species.