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 Clitocybula grisella
SynonymsFayodia grisella
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: 130-Clitocybula grisella: a. spores; b. basidia and cheilocystidia; c.
caulocystidia; d. cuticle. | 
Caption: ZT68-031
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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: Fayodia grisella Stevenson and Taylor (29 D) Fig. 12 = Clitocybula grisella
(Stevenson and Taylor) comb. nov. (Basionym: F. grisella Stevenson and Taylor,
Kew Bull. 19: 47, 1964)
Spores oval to almost round, hyaline, amyloid, smooth, 5-6.5 X 4-5.5 µ (2-spored
: 5.5-6 X 7 µ). Cheilocystidia present but not distinct. Caulocystidia club-shaped
or somewhat irregular, thinwalled, distinctly coloured by a brown, plasmatic
pigment. Cuticle of repent, cylindrical hyphae forming a cutis, with scattered club-shaped or fusoid, suberect dermatocystidia filled with a brown coloured cell sap,
with clamp connections.
Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 7-9 mm diam, grey, hemispherical with a shallow umbilicus and a down-rolled margin, subfibrillose, satiny; flesh very thin, fragile. Gill adnate to sinuate, pale grey with white margins, deep, moderately distant long and short intercalated. Stipe 2-3 cm x 1-2.5 mm, very pale fawn smooth, silky; flesh solid, white, fragile. Spores subglobose 4.5-7 µm diam. moderately thick-walled, outer layer hyaline inner layer strongly amyloid contents or inner wall somewhat granular, apiculus prominent (Fig. 2/37 p. 37). Hymenophoral trama weakly pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia thin-walled 20-25 x 5-10 µm, more or less inflated. Cuticle of closely woven hyphae with thin-walled swollen dermatocystidia, 40-50 x 10-15 µm, with grey contents.
Habitat: On fallen log in Nothofagus forest, Butterfly, Wellington, 8.4.1961 G. M. Taylor (type).
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