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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Tricholoma bubalinum. Tricholoma bubalinum

Synonyms

Collybia bubalina

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Fig. 18

Caption: 38-Tricholoma bubalinum: a. spores; b. basidia. c. cuticle.
 

Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 3-7 cm diam., pale buff, plane with a down curved margin, matt; flesh thin, whitish. Gills sinuate, buff, moderately distant. Stipe 4-6 x 0.5-1 cm buff, striate, hollow, tough, tapering slightly to somewhat swollen base. Spores 5.5 x 2.5 µm non-amyloid, thin-walled, hyaline (Fig. 18). Cuticle of appressed hyphae, mainly of large diam., 5-10 µm. Hymenophoral trama sub-regular, of large diam. hyphae. Slight sour smell.
Habitat: Among litter under Nothofagus, Spooner's Range, Nelson, 20.5.1956, 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).
Notes: Collybia bubalina Stevenson (29D) = Tricholoma bubalinum (Stevenson) comb. nov. (Basionym: C. bubalina Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19: 9, 1964) This species is a typical Tricholoma. The cuticle is formed by slightly gelatinised, cylindrical, repent hyphae without clamp connections. Spores are elliptical to subcylindric, hyaline, neither amyloid nor dextrinoid, smooth, 4.5-5 X 2-2.5 µ. Cystidia none.