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 Tubaria crobula
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous
Article: Massee, G.E. (1899) [1898]. The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349 Wellington:.
Description: Pileus slightly fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, slightly viscid, not striate, at first covered
with white floccose scales, then naked and hoary, tan-colour, 1-2 cm. across; gills slightly
decurrent, 2-3 mm. broad, crowded, rusty-brown; spores elliptical, rusty-brown, 10 x 6 µ;
stem 2-3 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick, often incurved or more or less wavy, brownish, covered
with white floccose scales like the pileus, hollow.
Habitat: On fragments of twigs, &c., lying on the ground in damp places.
Distribution: Dannevirke, New Zealand.
Ceylon, Europe.
Notes: Distinguished from Tubaria furfuracea by the slightly viscid pileus, and by the densely scaly
stem, which often bears more or less evident traces of a ring.
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