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 Pleurotopsis roseola
SynonymsPanellus roseolus
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: 283-Pleurotopsis roseola: a. spores; b. basidia. |
Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 1 x 1.25 cm, pale pink with cream tint, mealy, orbicular with down-rolled margin. Gills adnate, creamy, thick, shallow, moderately crowded, some forking. Stipe 2-5 x 2-3 mm, lateral, pale pink, velvety, fibrillose. Spores 6 x 3 µm, amyloid (Fig. 3). Cystidia, thin-walled, 25 x 2-5 µm, on edges. Cuticle of loosely woven, seldom branched, semi-gelatinized hyphae with clamp connections,
Habitat: On fallen wood, Woodside, Dunedin, 22.5.1953) Stevenson (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).
Description: Panellus roseolus Stevenson (29 D) Fig. 24 = Pleurotopsis roseola (Stevenson)
comb. nov. (Basionym: P. roseolus Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19: 28, 1964)
Spores cylindrical or slightly allantoid, amyloid, smooth, 6.5-7 X 2.5-3.5 µ.
Cheilocystidia none. Cuticle a thick layer of strongly gelatinised hyphae forming a
cutis, clamp connections present.
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