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Synonyms

Astrosporina viscata

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: 69/331: Astrosporina viscata
Owner: Egon Horak
Caption: 68/177: Astrosporina viscata
Owner: Egon Horak
Caption: Astrosporina viscata (type): g, carpophores; h, spores; i, basidia; k, cheilocystidia; m, pleurocystidia.
Owner: J.A. Cooper

Caption: spores (KOH)
Owner: J.A. Cooper
Caption: cheilo and para cystidia
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., hemispherical when young, soon campanulate or convex with broad umbo, also becoming expanded with depressed centre; yellowish brown, beige or avellanous; innately fibrillose, viscid, veil remnants absent. Lamellae adnexed to sub free, crowded; whitish when young becoming chocolate or tobacco-brown, dark brown in aged carpophores, edge white, fimbriate. Stipe 20-75 x 3-6 mm, cylindrical, base rarely slightly swollen; whitish turning brownish or even dark brown when old, whole length pruinose; solid, dry, cortina absent, single in groups. Context whitish yellowish, reddish brown in upper parts of the stipe. Odour none.
Spores 7-9 x 5-6 µm, ovate with wart-like knobs, brown. Basidia 20-70 x 5-8 µm, 4-spored. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia 30-80 x 10-24 µm, clavate, cylindrical-fusoid, thick-walled, with yellow plasmatic pigment (in KOH), apex encrusted. Caulocystidia numerous, like pleurocystidia. Cuticle a cutis of cylindrical hyphae (3-10 ^m diam.), membranes gelatinised, encrusted with brown pigment. Clamp connections present.
Habitat: On soil in Nothofagus forests (N. clifforlioides, N. menziesii). New Zealand.
Notes: The viscid pileus, the cylindrical pruinose stipe, and the small gibbous spores characterise this species. Macroscopically it could be taken as A. subclavata, but the shape of the cheilo- and caulocystidia distinctly separate the two taxa.