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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Inocybe leptospermi. Inocybe leptospermi

Synonyms

Astrosporina leptospermi

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Astrosporina leptospermi (type): h, carpophores; k, spores; m, basidia; n, cheilocystidia; o, pleurocystidia; p, caulocystidia,
Caption: top: cheilocystidia. bottom: spores
Owner: J.A. Cooper
Caption: Watercolour
Owner: G.M. Taylor
Caption: ZT74-540
Owner: E. Horak: © Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand

Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD
Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD
Owner: J.A. Cooper
Caption: 68/570: Inocybe leptospermi
Owner: Egon Horak
 

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-35 mm diam., conico-convex, campanulate to umbonate-expanded; grey-brown, hazel-brown to dark brown, yellow tints absent; umbo smooth later squamose, fibrillose to rimose towards the margin, often splitting; subviscid when wet, veil remnants absent. Lamellae adnate, adnexed to almost free, crowded (1-7), ventricose; whitish or grey when young turning beige-grey, with white fimbriate edges. Stipe 25-50 x 3-5 mm, cylindrical with marginate bulb (-11 mm diam.); whitish soon turning pink or reddish brown, bulb white outside; pruinate, no veil remnants dry, solid, single in groups. Context brownish in pileus, reddish brown in stipe. Odour not distinctive.
Spores 8-10 x 6-8 µm, nodulose, knobs conspicuous. Basidia 22-30 x 6-8 µm, 4-spored. Cheilo-cystidia 30-45 x 12-18 µm, ovate to subfusoid, metuloid (membrane -4 µm diam.), encrusted, hyaline. Pleurocystidia 32-60 x 15-25 µm, otherwise like cheilocystidia, also caulocystidia. Cuticle a cutis of cylindrical hyphae (4-14 µm diam.), encrusted with yellow-brown pigment. Clamp connections numerous.
Habitat: On soil under Leptospermum scoparium. New Zealand.
Notes: This species is common under Leptospermum scoparium (and probably also L. ericoides) under different ecological conditions. The most distinctive characters are the rather small, metuloid and crystal-bearing cheilo- and pleurocystidia.