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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Inocybe cerea. Inocybe cerea

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Inocybe cerea (type): r, carpophores; s, spores; t, basidia; u, cheilocystidia; v, pleurocystidia.

Caption: 69/172: pdd 27165: Inocybe cerea
Owner: Egon Horak

Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD
 

Article: Horak, E. (1978) [1977]. Fungi Agaricini Novaezelandiae. VI. Inocybe (Fr.) Fr. and Astrosporina Schroeter. New Zealand Journal of Botany 15(4): 713–747 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: Pileus -30 mm diam., hemispherical becoming convex to umbonate expanded; brown at disc, yellow-brown towards the margin, in young carpophores margin densely covered with yellow strigose fibrils or hairs, later washed off; dry, fibrillose, estriate. Lamellae adnexed or emarginate-adnate, ventricose, crowded; light yellow turning yellow-brown; brownish fimbriate edges. Stipe 20-45 x 3-4 mm, cylindrical, equal; yellowish turning wax-yellow or yellowish brownish, with pink tints towards the base; upper half pruinate, with appressed white fibrils towards base; dry, solid, veil remnants absent, single or grown together. Context yellowish with greenish tints, white in base of stipe. Odour acidulous, like Lepiota cristata. Spores 6-7 x 4.5-5 µm, ovoid, smooth, brown. Basidia 18-26 x 7 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 15-35 x 10-18 µm, clavate to vesicular, thin-walled, hyaline, not encrusted. Pleurocystidia 35-50 x 13-8 µm, fusoid, thick-walled (-2 µm diam.), encrusted. Caulocystidia -100 x -12 µm, cylindrical to fusoid with a long neck, thin-walled, occasionally encrusted with crystals, hyaline. Cuticle a cutis of cylindrical hyphae (5-10 µm diam.), encrusted with yellow-brown pigment. Clamp connections numerous.
Habitat: On soil under Nothofagus (N. cliffortioides, N. menziesii), Dacrydium, and Podocarpus. New Zealand.
Notes: Several characters are specific for I. cerea: they re the yellow colour of the fruiting bodies, in young specimens yellow strigose hairs along margins of the pileus, the vesiculose cheilocystidia, and the ovoid pores.