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 Clitopilus iti
SynonymsRhodocybe iti
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 5-15 mm diam., hemispherical or convex when young, becoming broadly umbonate or campanulate, margin recurved in mature carpophores; pale brown to argillaceous with distinct pink tint, hygrophanous; dry, glabrous to minutely fibrillose or micaceous, membranous, margin striate when moist, veil remnants absent. Lamellae crowded (L 8-12, -3), emarginate to decurrent with short teeth; cinnamon or pale argillaceous, with pink shade in mature carpophores, edge concolorous, even. Stipe 15- 30 x up to 1 mm, cylindric, equal, central; concolorous with pileus, covered with paler, longitudinal fibrils, basal tomentum absent; dry, fistulose, single and fasciculate in groups. Context pale brown. Odour and taste farinaceous. Spores 6-9 x 5-6 µm, ellipsoid, rugulose, pale pink-brown (KOH), thin-walled. Basidia 30-36 x 7-8 µm, 4-spored, membranes occasionally thick-walled. Pseudocystidia absent. Cuticle a cutis of repent or interwoven, cylindric hyphae (2 -7 µm diam.), encrusted with brown pigment. Clamp connections absent.
Habitat: O n soil among rotting leaves and debris in forests (under Nothofagus fusca (Hook. f.)Oerst., Schefflera sp., Fuchsia sp., Aristotelia sp., Weinmanna sp., Dacrydium cupressinum Lamb. New Zealand.
Notes: iti = small, in Maori.
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