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 Clitopilus conchatus
SynonymsRhodocybe conchata
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD |
Article: Horak, E. (1979). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae. VII. Rhodocybe Maire. New Zealand Journal of Botany 17(3): 275–281 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: Pileus up to 15 mm diam., circular when young soon becoming dimidiate, conchate, or reniform, margin incurved; whitish, grey, or pale grey-brown, not hygrophanous, margin not striate; radially fibrillose to woolly, dry, membranous, tough, veil remnants absent. Lamellae adnexed to broadly adnate, ventricose, crowded; grey to argillaceous, with distinct pink tint. edge concolorous, even. Stipe 3-8 X up to 1 mm, cylindric, equal, curved, eccentric or lateral; concolorous with pileus, densely covered with white longitudinal fibrils, white rhizoids at base (connecting the carpophores to the substrate); dry, solid, single in groups. Context grey. Odour and taste farinaceous or like cucumber. Spores 5-7 x 4-5 µm, ovoid, rugulose, rarely distinctly subangular, grey-pink (KOH), thin-walled. Basidia 24-30 X 5-7 µm, 4-spored. Pseudocystidia 45-70 x 4-7 µm, lanceolate or fusoid, membrane thin-walled, with yellow-brown, granular content. Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindric hyphae (2 - 6 µm diam.), encrusted with grey-brown pigment. Clamp connections present, but scattered.
Habitat: O n rotten trunk of Cyathea dealbata (Forst. f.) Swartz or Nothofagus sp. New Zealand.
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