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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Hypholoma brunneum. Hypholoma brunneum

Synonyms

Flammula brunnea

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Non endemic

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Caption: 35-Hypholoma brunneum: b. chrysocystidia.
Caption: 35-Hypholoma brunneum: a. spores.
Owner: J.A. Cooper
Caption: ZT2089
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Caption: ZT8685
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Caption: ZT67-256
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Caption: ZT8676
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Caption: ZT8685
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Caption: Wangapeka area, 2006
Owner: Colin Duncan
Caption: Wangapeka area, 2006
Owner: Colin Colmar
Caption: Kaimanawa Mountains, Taupo, North Island, 2001-05-01
Owner: Karl Soop
 

Article: Reid, D.A. (1956) [1955]. New or interesting records of Australasian basidiomycetes. Kew Bulletin 1955: 631-648.
Description: Pileus 4-5 cm. or more in diameter, dark olive brown to nearly black when fresh, smooth above, plane, but margin occasionally inrolled. Stipe up to 6 cm. in length, hollow, glabrous, concolorous with cap. Flesh very thin, silky, fibrous, ochraceous, drying yellowish, homogeneous with that of stipe. Gills adnate, interlaminated, 0-5 cm. wide, olive-tinted cinnamon, dusky. Pleurocystidia present, 25-32 x 11-12 µ, clavate, with brown contents. Spores brown under the microscope, elliptical, monoguttulate, with well defined apical germ-pores, 6 -7.5 x 3.5-4 µ (7-8 x 4-4.5 µ in the type collection).
Notes: This fungus which is a problem to nurserymen in Tasmania, was hitherto known only from New Zealand.

Article: Massee, G.E. (1899) [1898]. The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349 Wellington:.
Description: Pileus subglobose, then expanding until almost plane, margin usually drooping, slightly umbonate, sometimes depressed round the umbo, 1-3 cm, across, even, glabrous, uniform dark-brown; flesh thin, pale greenish-yellow; gills adnexed, becoming almost or quite free as the pileus expands, crowded, rather broad, rusty-brown at maturity; spores elliptical, 5 x 3 µ, rusty; stem 3-7 cm. long, slender, almost equal, paler than the pileus, almost or quite smooth.
Habitat: On logs.
Distribution: New Zealand.
Notes: Sent to Kew by Colenso mixed with F. purpureo-nitens, from which it differs, as also from every other described species, by the dark-brown pileus and greenish-yellow flesh. Fasciculate.

Article: Horak, E. (1971). A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Notes: Flammula brunnea Massee (16,D) Figs 2, 3 = Hypholoma brunneum (Massee) Reid 1955=. Type material: COLENSO b 668.