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 Cortinarius coneae
SynonymsSecotium coneae
Thaxterogaster coneae
Volvigerum coneae
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Thaxterogaster conei (Heim) Hk. & Moser
(type): a. fruitingbodies. b. spores |
Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p.
Description: ‘Cap
fragile, splitting, silky, purple stained, with bright yellow dusting; gills
or ? tramal plates closely pressed together, somewhat convoluted in places,
covered with rust coloured spores; stalk fragile, solid, fleshy purple stained
yellow, silky, striate, distinct small volva at base. 1 specimen rotten' (description
after G. Stevenson, in sched.)
Spores
12-14 x 7-8 µm, sublimoniform, axially symmetric, covered with broad warts,
perisporium well developed, germ pore absent, ferruginous. Basidia or cystidia
not observed. Structure of the cuticle unknown because of the fragmentary condition
of the type material.
Habitat: On
soil. New Zealand.
Notes: This
species is remarkable because of its membranaceous volva at the base of the
stipe and the sublimoniform spores. The description of Th. conei (Heim)
is based on the observations of a single, half-rotten carpophore and inevitably
fresh material must be found again in order to define all taxonomic characters
not known at present. We agree with Singer & Smith (1958: 204) that a critical
study of fresh gastrocarps may reveal that Th. conei (Heim) should to
be assigned to another genus which was named Volvigerum (Horak &
Moser) Heim (1966: 152)
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