|
 Entoloma cerinum
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
Images (click to enlarge)
Caption: Entoloma cerinum Hk. (holotype):
a. carpophores. b. spores. c. basidia. d. cuticle. | 
Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD |
Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p.
Description: Pileus
40-70 mm diam., conical or convex with prominent umbo, margin undulating, dark
brown, dry, radially fibrillose, striate near the margin, hygrophanous. Lamellae
adnexed, deep waxy-yellow when young, becoming dark pink, gill edge concolorous,
serrate, crowded. Stipe 50-80 x 7-12 mm, cylindrical or attenuated towards the
apex, deep yellow or coloured like brass, in aged carpophores yellowish-brownish,
dry, innately fibrillose, with white weft at the base, hollow, fragile, twisted.
Context yellowish-brownish. Odor acidulous. Taste mild.
Spores
6-7 x 5.5-7 µm, subglobose, 6-7-sided. Basidia 35-45 x 8-1O µm, 4-spored (rarely
2-spored). Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis of cylindrical hyphae (6-12 µm diam.),
membrane thin-walled, not gelatinized, with brown pigment dissolved in the plasma
or located in the vacuoles. Clamp connections absent.
Habitat: On soil among mosses and litter in
Nothofagus spp. forests (with Phyllocladus alpinus, Dracophyllum spp.,
etc.). New Zealand.
Notes: E. cerinum is not related
to any of the other known species of Entoloma in New Zealand. It has
only some characters in common with E. luteifolium Hesler from Cuba but
the two fungi are definitely different.
|