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 Panellus niger
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: 209-Hydropus sp. [Panellus niger Stevenson]: a. spores; b. basidia. |
Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 2.5-4.5 cm diam., black, velvety fibrillose, more or less plane becoming irregularly waved, margin down-rolled. Gills adnate, grey, thick, shallow, moderately crowded. Stipe 2-3 cm x 3-6 mm, centric to excentric, greyish sepia, fibrillose to fibrillose-scaly with or without tufts of fibrils at base. Spores 5-6 x 2.5-3 µm, amyloid (Fig. 2/5, p. 37). Cuticle of closely woven almost parallel hyphae with dark to very dark walls.
Habitat: On fallen wood, Ohau River, 25.5.1952, Stevenson (type),
Notes: This species is close to but distinct from the Australian Pleurotus sulciceps Cooke & Massee, the type specimen of which has been examined.
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: Panellus niger Stevenson (29 D) Fig. 10 = Hydropus sp.
Spores oval to elliptical, hyaline, weakly amyloid, smooth, 4-4.5 X 2-2.5 µ.
Cystidia none. Cuticle with intermixed oleiferous hyphae showing in KOH a
dark brown plasmatic pigment, with clamp connections.
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