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

Synonyms

Inocybe luteobulbosa

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: 68/584: Inocybe luteobulbosa
Owner: Egon Horak

Caption: 67/105: Inocybe luteobulbosa
Owner: Egon Horak

Caption: Fig. 10. Inocybe luteobulbosa (type): p, carpophores; q, spores; r, cheilocystidia; s, pleurocystidia; t, caulocystidia.
Fig. 10a. Inocybe luteobulbosa var. volvata (type): carpophores.

Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Caption: spores and cheilocystidia
Owner: J.A. Cooper

Caption: pleurocystidia
Owner: J.A. Cooper
 

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., convex becoming umbonate-convex to campanulate; light brown, hazel-brown, or yellow-brown, at first densely covered with sulphur-yellow fibrils from the veil, washed off in aged carpophores; fibrillose, towards the estriate margin rimose, disc often becoming squamulose, dry. Lamellae adnate to adnexed, crowded (L 20-26, 1 -5), ventricose; grey-beige to brown, white fimbriate edges. Stipe 20-60 x -5(8) mm, cylindrical, attenuated towards the apex, base bulbous or clavate, rarely submarginate; beige soon turning pink or reddish brown, base densely covered with yellow fibrils or a membranous persistent volva (68/333, 68/622); pruinate all over, cortina absent, dry, solid, single in groups. Context brownish in pileus, reddish brownish in stipe, white to yellowish in base of stipe. Odour not distinctive.
Spores 6.5-8.5 x 4.5-5.5 µm, amygdaliform, smooth, brown. Basidia 18-25 X 6-8 µm, 4-spored. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia 35-70 X 12-25 µm, fusoid, metuloid (-3 µm diam.), encrusted, hyaline. Caulo-cystidia similar but larger. Cuticle a cutis of cylindrical hyphae (4-10 µm diam.), encrusted with yellow-brown pigment. Clamp connections present.
Habitat: On soil, among Sphagnum, or on rotten wood in Nothofagus forests (N. fusca, N. cliffortioides). New Zealand.