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

Synonyms

Astrosporina manukanea

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Astrosporina manukanea  (type):  n, carpophores; o, spores; p, basidia; q, cheilocystidia; r, caulo-cystidia; s, cuticle.

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 -20 mm diam., hemispherical at first becoming convex or umbonate-convex; light to dark brown, tobacco-brown; centre with minute squarrose scales, fibrillose towards the dentate margin, dry, veil remnants not conspicuous. Lamellae adnate, crowded (L 10-18, 13), ventricose; beige or beige brown, edge paler, fimbriate. Stipe 15-25 x 2-2.5 mm, cylindrical, without bulbous base; reddish brown, densely covered with white fibrils, not pruinose; dry, solid, single or in clusters. Context brown beneath cuticle, reddish brown in stipe. Odour none or slightly acidulous.
Spores 7.5-10 x 6-7 µm, nodose, knobs prominent brown. Basidia 20-23 x 7-8 µm. 4-spored. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia 30-60 x 16-26 µm, fusoid, thick-walled, encrusted, hyaline to yellowish. Caulocystidia cylindrical, thin-walled, 6-10 µm in diam., without crystals. Cuticle a trichoderm of short-cylindrical hyphae (5-8 µm diam.), encrusted with brown pigment. Clamp connections numerous.
Habitat: On soil under Leptospermum ericoides (manuka). New Zealand.
Notes: In the field A. manukanea could be confused with A. subclavata. Microscopical examination, however, will show that the spores of A. manukanea are larger and bear much more pronounced knobs, and cheilocystidia are metuloid with crystals.