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 Lentinus zelandicus
SynonymsLentinus pygmaeus
Pocillaria zelandicus
Scleroma pygmaeum
BiostatusPresent in region - Origin uncertain
Article: Segedin, B.P. (1996). A new species of Lentinellus (Hericiales, Lentinellaceae) and a revision of taxa attributed to Lentinellus in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 34(2): 249-261 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Notes: According to Pegler (1983) the type collection comprises two small, centrally stipitate agarics
which probably belong in Tricholomataceae, Clitocybeae.
Article: Massee, G.E. (1899) [1898]. The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349 Wellington:.
Description: Pileus thin, rather tough, cream-colour or dingy-white, glabrous, slightly striate, deeply
umbilicate or funnel-shaped, 1.5-2.5 cm. across ; gills decurrent, rather distant and broad,
edge quite entire, interstices even; spores pip-shaped, hyaline, 6 x 4 µ; stem 2.5-5 cm. long,
very slender, with a tawny or rufescent tinge, base with pale down, rooting.
Habitat: On rotten logs.
Distribution: Forest of Tehawera, Northern Island, New Zealand.
Notes: Solitary, or frequently 2-5 plants springing in a caespi-tose manner. Rigid when dry. Not a
typical Lentinus, on account of the entire edge of the gills.
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