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 Entoloma gracile
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Watercolour
Owner: G.M. Taylor | 
Caption: Entoloma gracile Stev. (holotype):
a. spores. | 
Caption: ZT9682: Entoloma gracile
Owner: Egon Horak | 
Caption: ZT793: Entoloma gracile
Owner: Egon Horak | |
Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p.
Description: 'Pileus
5-6 mm diam., planoconvex, pinkish grey, darker at centre, silky fibrillose.
Gills sinuately adnexed, moderately distant, pink. Stipe 50 x 1 mm, slate blue,
pale yellow to white at base, silky, smooth' (description according to Stevenson
1962: l.c.).
Spores
6.5-7.5 x 6-7 µm, subglobose, 5-6-sided. Basidia 30-35 x 8-10 µm, 4-spored.
Cystidia not observed. Structure of cuticle unknown.
Habitat: On
soil in Nothofagus solandri-forest. New Zealand.
Notes: The
description of the microscopical characters is based on a study of the type.
Because of the fragmentary condition of the authentic material the presence
of cystidia and the structure of the cuticle could not be demonstrated. Finally
it seems that the measurements given for this fungus do not correspond with
those to be deduced from the figures (see original diagnosis, Stevenson 1962).
The
taxonomic position and the relationships of E. gracile cannot yet be
worked out but the known characters suggest the species is near E. haastii
Stev.
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