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 Gigasperma cryptica
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Gigasperma cryptica Hk.: a. carpophores (nat size), b. spores (1000 x). c. basidia (1000 x). d.
cuticle (500 x). | 
Caption: ZT68-504 , Holotype
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: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD |
Article: Horak, E. (1971). Contributions to the knowledge of the Agaricales s.l. (Fungi) of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 463-493 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: Pileus 5-25 mm diam., pyriform or irregularly
tuberiform, subglobose: whitish or cream coloured, later becoming clay-brownish;
dry, glabrous sometimes covered by fragile white rhizoids, not areolate; margin
of pileus always attached to the stipe and never exposing the gleba. Glebe of
round or elliptical cells (up to 3mm diam.), irregularly distributed rust brown;
tramal plates not gelatinised. Stipe always developed and visible, conical,
solid, confluent with the compact, sterile subgleba columella absent. Context
whitish, not gelatinous. Chemical reactions or pileus: KOH—yellow-brownish.
Taste acidulous. Smell like garlic.
Spores 27-36 µm diam., subglobose, usually
large and with very thick (5-7 µm) membrane, yellow-brown or reddish-brown in
KOH, neither amyloid nor dextrinoid, with prominent apiculus. Basidia 45-60
x 15-30 µm, 4-spored, large pear-shaped or like a sand-glass (in profile) Cystidia
absent. Cuticle a cutis consisting of cylindrical, thin-walled, no gelatinised
hyphae (3-6 µm diam.), encrusted with yellowish pigment, clamp connections present.
HABITAT: Buried in humus between roots of
Nothofagus spp.; New Zealand.
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