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 Phaeomycena fusca
BiostatusPresent 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: Pileus1.5-3 cm diam., fuscous, sub-fibrillose with some glistening particles, finely striate at margin, hemispheric with or without a broad umbo; flesh thin, white to brownish. Gills adnexed to free, pink becoming pale fawn, deep, moderately crowded, long and short intercalated. Stipe 3-6 cm x 2-3 mm, white to fawn, silky smooth with a few tufts of white hyphae at the somewhat swollen base. Spores 7 x 5-6 µm non-amyloid, moderately thick-walled with endosporium stramineous in NH4OH (Fig. 15); print white. Cuticle of repent hyphae over a cellular hypodermium.
Habitat: On fallen rotting Nothofagus log, Lowry Bay, Wellington, 23.4.1961, G. M. Taylor (type).
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: Phaeomycena fusca Stevenson and Taylor = Pluteus sp., there are no doubts
about the taxonomic position of this collection and we see no reason to place it in
the monotypic genus Phaeomycena which was recorded once from Madagascar.
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