PDD 106717 – Calvatia gigantea (Batsch) Lloyd
Data provider:
New Zealand Fungarium - Te Kohinga Hekaheka o Aotearoa
Barcode:
PDD 106717
Specimen type:
Packet
Database record added:
13 November 2018
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Calvatia gigantea
Determiner:
J.A. Cooper
Identification date:
2017-03-11 (Verbatim: 2017/03/11)
Preferred name:
Calvatia gigantea (Batsch) Lloyd
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Lycoperdaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Substrate:
litter
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
31 Major Aitken Drive, Huntsbury, Christchurch
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.571587 172.648458
Verbatim locality:
31 Major Aitken Drive, Huntsbury, Christchurch
Verbatim collector:
J.A. Cooper
Standardised collector:
J. A. Cooper
Collectors reference no.:
JAC 14350
Verbatim date:
2017/3/5
Start date:
2017-03-05
Country:
New Zealand
New Zealand Area Codes:
Mid Canterbury
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Grid:
2481627E 5737285N (WGS84 -43.571341 172.64861)
Habitat:
Garden
Specimen notes
Public Note:
to 12cm diam. Without basal membrane. Abruptly rooting and with rhizoids. Strong unpleasant odour. Spores with pedicel and smooth and capillitium without pores but with sparse granular encrustation. This from the olivaceous first year gleba. From a year old reddish brown gleba the capillitium is smooth with no encrustation, spores with pedicel and sparsely echinulate. Keys to Grgruninovich C. candida var. fusca but Cunningham stresses smooth versus non-smooth perdium, making this C. gigantea (a small one), but that has pores on the capillitium. This is closer to C. gigantea, but surely not the same? The combination of sparsely echinulate spores with a persistent pedicel, large frb, smooth expoperidium and olivaceous/dark rusty gleba seems to be unique compared to similar large species C. gigantea, C. bicolor, C. booniana, C. polygonia, C. nipponica, C. craniformis, C, cyathformis.
J.A. Cooper
J.A. Cooper
Assigned reference numbers
JA Cooper Fungarium:
JAC14350
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