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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Mycena primulina. Mycena primulina

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Watercolour
Owner: G.M. Taylor

Caption: 255-Mycena primulina: a. spores.
 

Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 5-14 mm diam., pale yellow darker at centre, broadly campanulate with indistinct umbo, dull, smooth; flesh thin, concolorous. Gills sinuately decurrent, pale yellow, moderately crowded, long and short intercalated. Stipe 2.5-5 cm x 1 mm, pale yellow darker at base, smooth, fragile, with scattered white fibrils towards base. Spores 6-7 X 4 µm, slightly amyloid,. thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus pseudo-amyloid, with many large cells, 60-90 x 20-30 µm. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia abundant, ornamented (Fig. 44).
Habitat: Amongst moss, Wai-iti, Nelson, 19.5.1956, M. Stewart in 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: Mycena primulina Stevenson (29 D) Fig. 21 Spores oval, hyaline, inamyloid, smooth, 4-5 X 3 µ. Cystidia fusoid to awl-shaped, hyaline, 20-32 X 4-7 µ.
Notes: 255 Mycena primulina: a. spores.