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 Inocybe amygdalina
SynonymsAstrosporina amygdalina
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: 69/97: Astrosporina amydalina
Owner: Egon Horak | 
Caption: Astrosporina amygdalina (type):
g, carpophores; h, spores; i, basidia' k, cheilo- and pleurocystidia; m, caulocystidia. | 
Caption: ZT1005
Owner: E. Horak: © Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand | 
Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD | |
Article: Horak, E. (1978) [1977]. Fungi Agaricini Novaezelandiae. VI. Inocybe (Fr.) Fr. and Astrosporina Schroeter. New Zealand Journal of Botany 15(4): 713–747 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: Pileus -25 mm diam., conical at first, becoming
campanulate or broadly convex-umbonate; beige or ochraceous brownish with reddish
tint, covered with whitish fibrils when young; innately fibrillose, becoming
squamulose or scaly at the disc, lacerate towards the margin; dry, without conspicuous
veil remnants. Lamellae adnate, ventricose; whitish turning beige-grey, with
white fimbriate edge, L 14-20, 1 3 (-5). Stipe 15-25 x 2-3 mm, cylindrical,
with small, marginate bulb at the base (-5 mm diam.); whitish, with brownish
hue when old; whole length covered with whitish minute longitudinally arranged
fibrils, conspicuous veil remnants absent; dry, hollow, single in groups. Context
white. Odour strong, like bitter almonds (as I. hirtella Bres.).
Spores 8.5-10 x 5.5-6.5 µm, nodulose, brown.
Basidia 22-30 x 8-10 µm, 4-spored. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia 40-60 x 14-20
µm, fusoid, thick-walled, hyaline, encrusted. Caulocystidia not distinctive.
Cuticle a trichoderm of cylindrical hyphae (5-10 µm diam.), membranes encrusted
with brown pigment. Clamp connections numerous.
Habitat: On soil under Leptospermum scoparium
in coastal forests. New Zealand.
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