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 Mycena ochracea
SynonymsFayodia ochracea
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: 225-Mycena ochracea: a. spores; b. basidia; c. cheilocystidia. | 
Caption: 225-Mycena ochracea: a. spores; b. basidia; c. cheilocystidia. |
Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 2-10 mm diam., ochraceous, hemispherical, sulcate striate a margins, velvety. Gills sinuately adnexed, greyish, moderately distant, long and short intercalated. Stipe 2-5 cm x 0.5-1 mm, pale ochraceous above light brown below, smooth with sparse hyphal fibrils at base. Spores 9-10 µm, slightly thickened walls, with clear outer layer and amyloid inner layer either granular inner wall or granular contents. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid with some large cells, up to 50 x 30 µm. Cheilocystidia ornamented (Fig. 39).
Habitat: Singly in litter, Queen's Gardens, Nelson, 6.5.1957, Stevenson (type).
Article: Horak, E. (1971). A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: Fayodia ochracea Stevenson (29 D) Fig. 19 = Mycena ochracea (Stevenson)
comb. nov. (Basionym: M. ochracea Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19: 47, 1964)
Spores oval to elliptical, hyaline, weakly amyloid, smooth, 8.5-10.5 X 5-6 µ.
Cheilocystidia numerous, fusoid, irregularly branched or broom-like, hyaline, thin-walled, 25-50 X 5-10 µ. Possibly
introduced.
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