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

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Inocybe renispora (type): a, carpophores; b, spores; c, basidia; d, cheilocystidia; e, 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 -35 mm diam., hemispherical, becoming umbonate-convex or campanulate; yellowish brownish; radially fibrillose, rimose to splitting, squamulose at disc; dry, veil remnants absent. Lamellae adnexed to emarginate-adnate; yellowish beige turning olive-beige, later deep brown, white with fimbriate edges; crowded (L 16-22, 13), ventricose. Stipe 20-50 x 3-8 mm, cylindrical, subclavate towards base, robust; whitish, becoming yellow-brownish at base, covered with concolorous fibrils, pruinate in upper parts; dry, cortina absent, hollow, single in groups. Context whitish beige. Odour none.
Spores 9-12 x 4.5-6.5 µm, kidney shaped, smooth, brown. Basidia 25-32 x 8-12 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia in dense clusters, 15-60 x 8-15 µm, cylindrical to clavate, thin-walled, not encrusted, forming sterile edge. Pleuro- and caulocystidia absent. Cuticle a cutis of cylindrical hyphae (5-12 µm diam.), encrusted with yellow-brown pigment. Clamp connections numerous.
Habitat: On soil under Leptospermum (L. ericoides) and/or Nothofagus (N. cliffortioides, N. menziesii). New Zealand.<