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 Hygrophorus waikanaensis
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Article: Horak, E. (1990). Monograph of the New Zealand Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). New Zealand Journal of Botany 28(3): 255-306 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Notes: The type material is in poor condition and no spores have been recovered. -
Basidia 50-60 x 5-6 um, 4-spored. - Pileipellis a cutis of repent-suberect cylindrical
hyphae (2-8 um diam.), in KOH with dark brown plasmatic and/or encrusting pigment,
membranes not gelatinised. Clamp connections not observed.
The material probably represents a species of Hydropus (cf. Singer,
1981).
Article: Stevenson, G. (1963) [1962]. The Agaricales of New Zealand: IV. Kew Bulletin 16(3): 373–384.
Description: Pileus 0.5-2.5 cm. diam., lilac, with sparse appressed, velvety black fibrils,
planoconvex with downrolled margin, sometimes depressed
at centre; flesh greyish blue-green. Gills decurrent, greyish flax blue, shallow,
triangular in section, occasionally forking. Stipe 1-3 X 0.2-0.5 cm., lilac
with scattered whitish fibrils, some showing blue-green striations, hollow,
rather brittle. Spore print white. Basidia 40-45 X 4-5 µm., four-spored. Scent
strong, of musk-vanilla.
Habitat: habitat: in humus in a dense group round the base of a rotting
standing tree, Waikanae, 1,1.1951, Stevenson.
Notes: At the time of collection the spore print was noted to be white but the spores
were not examined with a microscope. A later search revealed many mould spores;
a very few spores, 4x5μm., ovoid, were seen attached to basidia but these
may have been immature.
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: The systematic position of this species remains doubtful because there are several
characters such as structure of the cuticle and the cheilo- and caulocystidia which
indicate that it is near Hydropus or Gerronema.
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