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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Hygrocybe cerinolutea. Hygrocybe cerinolutea

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Hygrocybe cerinolutea Hk. (type): a. carpophores. - b. spores. - c. basidia. - d. cuticle

Caption: Hygrocybe cerinolutea
Owner: Kaimai Bush

Caption: Fig. 2  Hygrocybe cerinolutea Horak (A-C: PDD 27083, type): A. basidiomeB. spores. C. basidia.

Caption: Watercolour
Owner: G.M. Taylor

Caption: FUNNZ photo
Owner: J.A. Cooper

Caption: FUNNZ photo
Owner: J.A. Cooper

Caption: spores
Owner: J.A. Cooper

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Owner: J.A. Cooper

Caption: scale=5mm
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Caption: ZT68-262 , 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
 

Article: Horak, E. (1990). Monograph of the New Zealand Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). New Zealand Journal of Botany 28(3): 255-306 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: Pileus -25 mm, hemispherical becoming convex to expanded, flat or subdepressed at centre; golden yellow to lemon yellow; dry, minutely felty to subsquamulose, hygrophanous, margin non-striate. - Lamellae 10-14 (1 -3) broadly adnate to decurrent (with short tooth); concolorous with pileus, edges yellow, entire. –Stipe 25-40 x 3-5mm, cylindrical, equal or slightly attenuated towards base; concolorous with pileus, yellowish-grey near base; dry, glabrous, hollow to stuffed, single or caespitose. - Context yellow, not blackening, waxy. - Odour and taste not distinctive. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH, HCl, NH3 - negative. Spores 8-10 x 5.5-7 um (-13 x -8 um on 2-spored basidia), ovoid. – Basidia 65-80 x 8-10 um, 4-(and 2-) spored. - Cystidia absent. - Pileipellis a cutis or trichoderm of cylindrical appressed or suberect hyphae (5-10 um diam.), membrane not gelatinised, with plasmatic pigment; clamp connections present (Pl. 1, Fig. 1).
Habitat: ECOLOGY: Rare, saprobic on soil among litter in broadleaved forest (dominated by Metrosideros, Weinmannia, Quintinia). April.
Distribution: DISTRIBUTION: NZ (WL).

Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p.
Description: Pileus 10-25 mm diam., hemispherical when young becoming convex then expanded, flat at the centre, golden yellow to lemon yellow, hygrophanous, estriate, dry, minutely squamulose to felty. Lamellae broadly adnate to decurrent with short tooth, coloured like pileus or deep yellow, without red or orange tinge, gill edge concolorous, even. Stipe 25-40 x 3-5 mm, cylindric, equal or slightly attenuated towards the base, concolorous with pileus, yellowish-grey near the base, dry, glabrous, waxy, hollow or stuffed. Context yellow, not blackening. Taste and odor not distinctive. Chemical reaction on pileus: KOH, NH3 and HCl - negative. Spores 8.5-10 x 6 µm (11-13 x 6.5-8 µm borne on 2-spored basidia), ovoid, smooth inamyloid. Basidia 65-80 x 8-10 µm, 4 and 2-spored. Cystidia absent. Cuticle trichodermium consisting of suberect, cylindric, not gelatinized hyphae (5-10 µm diam.), plasmatic pigment present. Clamp connections numerous.
Habitat: In soil under Metrosideros umbellata, Weinmannia, Quintinia, etc. New Zealand.
Notes: Macroscopically this species is near H. ceracea (Fr.) but the spores of the N.Z. fungus are considerably larger and there is no gelatinous layer on the pileus and stipe.