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 Entoloma mcnabbianum
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Fig. 84: Entoloma mcnabbianum Hk. (type): carpophores, spores, basidia, cuticle. | 
Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD |
Article: Horak, E. (1980). Entoloma (Agaricales) in Indomalaya and Australasia. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 65: 352 p.
Description: P. 25-65 mm, convex when young, soon becoming umbonate to campanulate, umbonate
centre often depressed, margin upturned and waved; brown; dry, margin estriate, velutinous
or scurfy to minutely squamulose, often concentrically cracking or wrinkled, not
hygrophanous. L. emarginate to subdecurrent with short tooth, ventricose, crowded; cream
turning pink with age, edge even, concolorous. St. 30-70/2,5-6 mm, cylindric to subclavate at
base, often equal; concolorous with p. or paler, with white villous base; dry, fibrillose to
glabrous, solid, single in groups. Context whitish, brown beneath cuticle. S not reported. Sp.
9-11,5 µm, subglobose with rather blunt angles. Bas. 30-45/9-12 µm, 2- and 4-spored. Ch.
and pl. absent. Cuticle a palisade of erect chains of short cells (10-25/4-10 µm), with hyaline
thin-walled membranes, conspicuous brown PP present, - OH, - CC.
Habitat: Habitat. - On soil in forest (Agathis alba). New Zealand.
Notes: This striking species is named after the late New Zealand mycologist R.F.R. McNabb who
twice gathered material in the surroundings of Auckland, New Zealand.
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