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Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Fig. 29

Caption: C-3367
Owner: Herb. PDD

Caption: Watercolour
Owner: G.M. Taylor

Caption: Hawdon, Canterbury, South Island, 1997-04-07
Owner: Karl Soop

Caption: Watercolour
Owner: G.M. Taylor

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Owner: J.A. Cooper

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Caption: ZT69-044
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Owner: P. Leonard

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Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 3-8 cm diam., olive green overlain with sparse brown fibrils at centre, convex with down-rolled margin at first, becoming irregularly plane, moist and smooth, drying subfibrillose; flesh dull whitish, somewhat water-soaked. Gills sinuate, moderately distant, long and short intercalated, often forked, creamy white becoming tinged dull pink. Stipe 3-8 x 3-5 cm, often swollen, with traces of a fibrillose ring, creamy and finely fibrillose above the ring, olive green and fibrillose scaly below. Spores 6-7 x 4-5 µm non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 29); print white. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae, mostly narrow but a few up to 5 µm diam. Smell faint at first becoming strongly fishy.
Habitat: Under Nothofagus, Butterfly, 26.6.1948, S. McCann; Butterfly, 10.7.19491 Stevenson (type); Rotoiti, 16.5.1956, E. Kidson; Catchpole, 3.5-1958 Stevenson.
Notes: Spores non-amyloid