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 Inocybe mendica
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Inocybe mendica (type): e, carpophores; g, spores; h, basidia; k, cheilo-and pleurocystidia;
m, caulocystidia; n, cuticle. | 
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 -10 mm diam., hemispherical becoming
convex, umbo absent; uniformly light brown; disc smooth, towards margin innately
fibrillose; dry, veil remnants absent. Lamellae adnexed, crowded (L 6-12, 1
3), ventricose; beige turning light brown, white fimbriate edges. Stipe 10-15
x 1-1.5 mm, cylindrical, equal; light brown, near apex white pruinate, towards
base with white appressed fibrils; dry, hollow, fragile, single in groups. Context
brownish. Odour not distinctive.
Spores 8-9 x 4.5-5.5 µm, amygdaliform, smooth,
brown. Basidia 20-25 x 7-8 µm, 4-spored. Cheilo-, pleuro-, and caulocystidia
35-70 x 8-15µm, cylindrical to subfusoid, metuloid (-2 µm diam.), encrusted,
yellowish (in KOH). Cuticle a cutis of cylindrical fusoid cells (8-12 µm diam.),
encrusted with brown pigment. Clamp connections numerous.
Notes: When identified macroscopically in the forest
this fragile, pale brownish Inocybe reminds one of Phaeomarasmius.
However, the presence of crystal-bearing cheilo-, pleuro-, and caulocystidia
undoubtedly places this species in Inocybe.
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