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 Pleurotus applicatus
SynonymsAgaricus applicatus
BiostatusPresent in region - Origin uncertain
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 saucer-shaped and orbicular when young, usually sessile and fixed by the downy base,
rarely furnished with a very short rudimentary stem, when adult more or less reflexed, slightly
fleshy, striate when moist, minutely pruinose when young, then glabrous or downy, 4-8 mm.
across; colour variable, blackish-blue, ashy-grey, or dark-grey; gills radiating from a central
or- excentric point, scanty, rather thick, broad, distant, grey, the margin usually whitish;
spores globose, 4-5 µ diameter.
Habitat: On rotten wood.
Distribution: New Zealand. Australia, Tasmania, Europe, Siberia, United States, Cuba,
Argentine Republic, Island of Juan Fernandez.
Notes: Distinguished by the minute species, by the dingy colour of the pileus, grey gills, and by the
resupinate habit, having the gills uppermost, and the pileus resting on the substratum.
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: In spite of sterile fruiting bodies (N.Z., 1866, 6282) there is no doubt that this
collection belongs to Resupinatus, a genus represented in N.Z. by at least two
species.
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