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 Mycena interrupta
SynonymsMycena veneta
Agaricus interruptus
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
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Caption: Mycena interrupta
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Caption: ZT67-260
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Caption: ZT0589
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Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
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Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 5-12 mm diam., prussian blue fading to yellowish-green, darker at centre, striate at margin, convex with slight central depression, translucent, very viscid; flesh thin, bluish-green. Gills free, moderately crowded, shallow, creamy to pale bluish-green, margins white at first becoming dark bluish-green, minutely fringed. Stipe 15-25 x 1-2 mm, pale bluish-green, to pale ochraceous, smooth and slightly viscid, translucent, bluish-green basal disc. Spores 9-11 x 6-7 µm, amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 42); print white. Hymenophoral trama strongly pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia are balloon-cells which may become filled with pigment, or which may be collapsed and somewhat gelatinized.
Habitat: On fallen rotting logs, Kapakapanui, 23.11.1946, A. P. Druce; Waiopehu, 23.11.1946, E. Cone; Keith George Park, 30.5.19491 Stevenson (type); Otari, 7.6.1958, Stevenson.
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