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 Inocybe subclavata
SynonymsAstrosporina subclavata
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: 69/36 : Astrosporina subclavata
Owner: Egon Horak | 
Caption: Astrosporina subclavata (type):
t, carpophores; u, spores; v, basidia; w, cheilocystidia; x, pleurocystidia;
y, caulocystidia. | 
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 -30 mm diam., conical when young becoming
campanulate, margin at first strongly inrolled; brown, densely covered with
white to brownish felt like veil remnants; centre smooth, fibrillose towards
the estriate margin, dry. Lamellae adnate to adnexed, crowded; (L 30, 1-7);
whitish turning beige, edge albofimbriate. Stipe -40 x -4 mm, cylindrical, base
clavate to bulbous (-7 mm diam.), not marginate; whitish, aged fruiting bodies
show reddish tint, densely covered with white fibrils from the veil, not pruinose
(or if, then uppermost part of the stipe only); dry, single in groups. Context
brown beneath cuticle, whitish in stipe. Odour sour, not spermatic.
Spores 7-8 x 5-6.5 µm, angular, knobs not
pronounced, brown. Basidia 20-24 x 8 µm. 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 25-60 x 10-22
µm, clavate to fusoid, thin-walled, not encrusted. Pleurocystidia 60-70 x 12-18
µm, lageniform, thin-walled, without incrustations. Caulocystidia absent. Cuticle
a cutis of cylindrical hyphae (3-8 µm diam.), membranes encrusted with brown
pigment. Clamp connections numerous.
Habitat: On soil under Nothofagus menziesii
and N. fusca. New Zealand.
Notes: For discussion compare A. viscata
and A. manukanea.
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