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 Clitocybe albida
SynonymsOmphalina albida
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: 6-Clitocybe albida: a. spores; b. basidia; c. cuticle. | 
Caption: Fig. 23 |
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: Fig. 1 = Clitocybe albida (Stevenson) comb. nov. (Basionym: O. albida Stevenson, Kew
Bull. 19: 12, 1964)
The spores are oval, smooth, neither amyloid nor dextrinoid, thin-walled, without germ-spore, 5-5.5 X 3-3.5 µ. Cystidia none. Cuticle consists of cylindrical, hyaline, nongelatinised
hyphae, 3-6 µ. diam., with clamp-connections.
Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 0.5-2.5 cm diam., white becoming tinged cream, plane with down rolled margin becoming umbilicate, velvety to fibrillose, somewhat grooved or striate towards margin; flesh thin, white. Gills decurrent, white, thin, hallow moderately distant to crowded. Stipe 0.5-2 cm x 1-2 mm, white, centric or eccentric. Spores 5 x 3-4 µm non-amyloid (Fig. 23), cuticle of loosely woven hyphae 2-5 µm diam., with clamp connections, some with thickened walls.
Habitat: On fallen rotting wood or tree fern stipes, arising individually but many close together from a spreading white mycelial mat, with or without white rhizomorphs, Levin, 3.5.1947, Stevenson (type); & Levin, 18.6.1949; Stevenson.
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