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 Panus purpuratus
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Type specimen, Kew
Owner: B.P. Segedin | 
Caption: Panus purpuratus
Owner: Kaimai Bush | 
Caption: Panus purpuratus
Owner: Kaimai Bush | 
Caption: Panus purpuratus
Owner: Kaimai Bush | 
Caption: 264-Panus purpuratus: a. spores; b. pleurocystidia; c. cuticle. | 
Caption: Watercolour
Owner: G.M. Taylor |
Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 4-9 cm diam., ochraceous fawn covered with purple blotches, intensely velvety fibrillose, concave, with down-rolled margin; flesh white to pale cream, tough. Gills decurrent, creamy with purple tinge, moderately distant, moderately deep. Stipe 2-4 x 0.5-1-5 cm, fawn with purple tint, velvety fibrillose, very tough, centric to excentric. Spores 5-6 x 2-2-5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled; print white. Metuloids 70 x 15 µm, very numerous (Fig. 2/9, p.37). Hymenophoral trama irregular with many very thick-walled hyphae. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae up to 10 µm diam., with clamp connections; superficial hyphae purple.
Habitat: On fallen wood in coastal forest, Waikanae, 1.4.1949, Stevenson (type), & Wakapuaka, Nelson, 14.4.1956, Stevenson
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).
Description: 264. + Panus purpuratus Stevenson (29 D)
Fig. 22 Spores allantoid, hyaline, neither amyloid nor dextrinoid, smooth, 5-6 X
1.5-2 µ. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia fusoid, thin-walled, without crystals, coloured
with a yellow plasmatic pigment, 40-90 X 8-11 µ. Cuticle consisting of suberect
fusoid or cylindrical cells forming a loose trichoderm, membrane of the hyphae
not gelainised, with clamp connections.
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