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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Pleurotus diversipes. Pleurotus diversipes

Synonyms

Agaricus diversipes

Biostatus

Present in region - Origin uncertain

Article: Massee, G.E. (1899) [1898]. The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349 Wellington:.
Description: Pileus circular or more or less excentric, pellucid, dingy-white, smooth, even, invested with a gelatinous stratum, often more or less depressed or umbilicate, horizontal owing to the upward curving of the stem, 3-5 cm across; gills rather decurrent, not very broad nor crowded, not connected by veins, whitish; spores elliptical, 5 X 3-3.5 µ; stem variable in length, up to 3 cm. long, often shorter, some-what cartilaginous, often compressed, hollow, attached by a flattened or slightly discoid base, whitish.
Habitat: On rotten logs stumps, &c.
Distribution: New Zealand. Tasmania, Australia.
Notes: Distinguished among species having the pileus covered with a gelatinous stratum by the hollow stem, which is sometimes almost central, at others almost lateral, but always inserted within the margin of the pileus ; usually curved when the fungus grows from a vertical substratum.