Data provider:
New Zealand Fungarium - Te Kohinga Hekaheka o Aotearoa
Database record added:
30 July 2019
Database record updated:
21 April 2024
Determined name:
Lachnum cf varians (Rehm) M.P. Sharma
Determiner:
P.R. Johnston
Identification date:
2019-07 (Verbatim: July 2019)
Preferred name:
Lachnum varians (Rehm) M.P. Sharma
Determination uncertain:
yes
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
morphology matches varians sensu Haines 1980, but genetically distinct from other simialr specimens
Associations:
has host Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.f.) Underw. 1907
Determined name:
Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.f.) Underw. 1907
Preferred name:
Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.f.) Underw. 1907
Identification type:
Determination
Collection event type:
Field
Location:
New South Wales, Barrington Tops National Park, Gloucester Tops Road, Antarctic Beech Forest; Gloucester Falls Track
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-32.097452 151.600155
Verbatim locality:
New South Wales, Barrington Tops National Park, Gloucester Tops Road, Antarctic Beech Forest; Falls Tr
Verbatim collector:
P.R. Johnston
Standardised collector:
Peter R. Johnston
Collectors reference no.:
PRJ AU09-39
Verbatim date:
17 May 2009
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-32.088228 151.596137
Public Note:
Fresh apothecia up to 0.3 mm diam., cupulate, narrow stipitate, bright lemon-yellow, short, yellow hairs with reddish exudate. Dry, edge of cup inrolled to cover hymenium, hairs pale brown, more or less white near margin of cup. Excipulum (squash mount) long-cylindric 5-9 µm diam. cells with thin walls. Paraphyses 2.5-3 µm diam., lanceolate, taper to narrow rounded apex. Asci 50-60 x 5-6 µm, more or less cylindric, taper suddenly to small,. rounded apex, wall slightly thickened at apex, small but intense J+ pore, extending right through wall, expanding across wall towards outside, with croziers [D. varians no croziers according to Haines 1980]. Ascospores 9.5-14 x 2-3 µm (average 11.7 x 2.2 µm), oblong-elliptic to subylindric, taper gradually to small, rounded ends, more or less symmetrical but very slightly flattened in side view and very slightly curved, 0-septate. Phylogentically a Lachnopsis sp.
PRJ, July 2019
Peter Johnston Culture Collection:
AU09-39