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 Conocybe pubescens
BiostatusPresent in region - Exotic
Article: Watling, R.; Taylor, G.M. (1987). Observations on the Bolbitiaceae: 27. Preliminary account of the Bolbitiaceae of New Zealand. Bibliotheca Mycologica 117: 61 p. + 17 pl.
Notes: The basidiospores of C. pubescens in Bell (as 'sensu Richardson & Watling' ) is given as 8-9 x 5-6 µm when Richardson & Watling (1968) give 'Basidiospores larger over 15 µm long x up to 10 µm broad'; see Watling, 1982. With no further details the species figured by Bell (1983) can neither be determined, nor placed in either sect. Pilosellae or sect. Farinosae. We can only think that the couplet in the key has been switched giving C. pubescens the small spore-size, whilst C. rickenii was given spores 17-20 x 10-13 µm.
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