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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Mycenula fuscovinacea. Mycenula fuscovinacea

Synonyms

Mycena fuscovinacea

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 2.5-5 cm diam., deep vinaceous brown, somewhat blotchy, more or less plane becoming somewhat waved at margin, moist, smooth; flesh buff, thin. Gills free or adnexed, pale vinaceous with creamy margins, deep, distant, rather thick, many with ribs between. Stipe 5-8 cm. x 3-8 mm, pale vinaceous, larger stipites twisted and striate, hollow, fragile, smooth, with creamy weft of hyphae at base. Spores 8-9 x 5-6 µm, amyloid, thin-walled; print white. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia 20-40 x 8-10 µm, abundant (Fig. 51). Smell faint, earthy. Drying dark purplish colour.
Habitat: In litter round standing podocarp stump, Waikanae, 15.5.1949, Stevenson (type); & in litter under exotic trees, Cawthron grounds, Nelson, 14.6.1956, Dorothy Read.

Article: Horak, E. (1971). A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Notes: Mycena fuscovinacea Stevenson (29 D) = Mycenula fuscovinacea (Stevenson) comb. nov. (Basionym : M. fuscovinacea Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19: 53, 1964)