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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Cortinarius peraurantiacus. Cortinarius peraurantiacus

Synonyms

Thaxterogaster aurantiacus

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Col. DAO 2099, FUNNZ: 2006/0133, See public note for more information
Owner: FUNNZ
Caption: Fruiting bodies 15-30 mm diam.
Owner: Herb PDD
Caption: ZT68-635
Owner: E. Horak: © Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand
Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD

Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD
Caption: Thaxterogaster aurantiacum Hk. sp.n. (type): a. fruitingbodies. b. spores. c. basidia. d. cuticle.
Owner: R.E. Beever
Owner: Herb. PDD

Caption: REB 1345 AK, Goldies Bush, 19/6/93 [REB 1345 not listed, possibilities are 1362,1361]
Owner: Ross Beever
 

Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p.
Description: Gastrocarp 10-20 mm diam., globose or ovoid, subhypogaeous buried among litter, peridium deep orange, golden yellow or reddish brown, mucilaginous, very glutinous, cuticle cartilaginous, up to 2 mm diam., margin of peridium not dehiscent from the base of the stipe, veil remnants absent. Gleba loculate, cells 1-2 mm diam., not radially arranged, without branching tramal plates, rust brown, neither exposed nor dehiscent from stipe (columella).
Stipe -15 x -3(5) mm, turbinate or bulbous-marginate at the base, strongly tapering towards the apex or absent, columella not branched, merging into central parts of peridium. Context whitish, tough. Odor and taste nor distinctive. Chemical reactions on peridium: KOH - negative.
Spores 13-15 x 7-9 µm, elliptic, verrucose, warts tubular and coarser towards the apex, perisporium well developed, ferruginous. Basidia 30-45 x 9-12 µm, 4 spored. Cystidia absent. Epicutis consisting of highly gelatinised, cylindric (2-7 µm diam.), thin-walled hyphae, encrusted with brown pigment; subcutis cellular. Clamp connections present.
Habitat: In soil amongst litter, under Leptospermum scoparium, Knightia sp., Cyathea sp., etc. New Zealand.
Notes: New Zealand a closely related form of this species is known to grow under Nothofagus (N. fusca, N. menziesii). This variety is distinguished from the type by its slightly larger spores, more gelatinous peridium and in many cases the beech forest inhabiting species does not have a well developed stipe and the columella is often absent or rather oblique (see Herb. HK. ZT 67/159; 68/635).