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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Crinipellis substipitaria. Crinipellis substipitaria

Biostatus

Present 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: Pileus 5-9 mm diam., fuscous, paler at margin, hemispherical becoming plane with a sharp umbo, covered with brown fibrillose scales. Gills free, creamy white, rather crowded. Stipe 1-3 cm x 0.5 mm, brown, fibrillose, tough. Spores 8-9 x 6-7 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama non-amyloid. Cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia fairly numerous, 25-30 x 5 µm, with branched tips. Cuticle with long unbranched hyphae, amyloid to pseudo-amyloid, 5 µm diam., with walls 2 µm thick.
Habitat: On fallen dead leaves, Lake Papaitonga, Levin, 27.10.1947, Stevenson (type).