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 Collopus subviscosus
SynonymsMycena subviscosa
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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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 subviscosa Stevenson (29 D) = Collopus subviscosus (Stevenson)
comb. nov. (Basionym: M. subviscosa Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19: 55, 1964)
Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 5-10 mm diam., pale greyish fawn, striate at margin, hemispherical, viscid, drying subfibrillose; flesh thin, whitish, fragile. Gills adnate to strongly decurrent, whitish, moderately crowded, long and short intercalated, margins gelatinized. Stipe 3-6 cm. x 1-2 mm, yellow, very viscid, hollow, fragile, swollen at base which usually has spreading hyphal hairs. Spores 9 - 10 x 5 – 6 cm, amyloid. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of Pileus pseudoamyloid. Cuticle somewhat gelatinized with narrow, non-amyloid, branched hyphal endings (Fig. 55).
Habitat: Singly and in groups on standing or fallen, timber, Tararuas, Levin, 15.5.1948, Leith Saddle, Dunedin, 23.3.1953 (type); & Rotoiti, Nelson, 21.4.1954; all Stevenson.
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