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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Collopus epipterygius. Collopus epipterygius

Synonyms

Mycena epipterygia
Agaricus epipterygius

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Non endemic

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Owner: J.A. Cooper
Owner: J.A. Cooper
Caption: top: section through cap. lower right: section through stem. lower left: gill edge. All showing strong gelatinisation in melzers.
Owner: J.A. Cooper
Caption: basidia and spores
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Owner: G.L. Barron
Owner: G.L. Barron
Caption: Mycena epipterygia
Owner: Kaimai Bush
Caption: FUNNZ photo. scale=2mm
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Caption: spores, cortical clamped hyphae and diverticulate terminal elements
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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 membranaceous, campanulate, obtuse, becoming more or less expanded, never truly depressed, striate, covered with a pellicle that is very viscid in wet weather and easily separable in every atmospheric condition, colour variable, usually grey, or often pale yellowish-green near the margin, which is often minutely notched when young, 1-2.5 cm. across; gills adnate, with a decurrent tooth, thin, whitish or with a tinge of grey; spores elliptical, 8-10 x 4-5 µ; stem 5-10 cm. long, about 2 mm. thick, hollow, tough, often wavy, base rooting and fibrillose, even, viscid, usually yellowish but sometimes grey, pallid, or whitish.
Habitat: On branches, twigs, among moss, &c.
Distribution: New Zealand. Europe, Siberia, United States.
Notes: Solitary or clustered. Colour variable, but readily known by the viscid pileus, and stem, both being furnished with a slimy separable pellicle.

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).
Notes: Several species belonging to the genus Collopus are represented in New Zealand, all of them closely related to the extremely variable C. epipterygius. Examined material: KIRK 20, BERGGREN 18; COLENso b 847.