PDD 125962 – Entoloma melanocephalum G. Stev.
Data provider:
New Zealand Fungarium - Te Kohinga Hekaheka o Aotearoa
Barcode:
PDD 125962
Specimen type:
Packet
Database record added:
20 January 2026
Database record updated:
20 January 2026
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Entoloma decolorans E. Horak
Determiner:
J.A. Cooper
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Entoloma melanocephalum G. Stev.
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Entolomataceae
Identification type:
Determination
Substrate:
on ground in leaf litter
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Entoloma (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871
Determiner:
G.S. Ridley
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Entoloma (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Ōtari-Wilton's Bush
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-41.2673 174.7562
Verbatim locality:
Ōtari-Wilton's Bush, ghost track to skyline ridge above Moko
Verbatim collector:
G.S. Ridley
Standardised collector:
Geoffrey S. Ridley
Verbatim date:
25 May 2025
Start date:
2025-05-25
New Zealand Area Codes:
Wellington
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāti Toa Rangatira
Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika
Te Atiawa (Wellington)
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
41.265082 S 174.75253 E (WGS84 -41.265082 174.75253)
Habitat:
broadleaf podocarp forest
Specimen flags
Component:
Spore print
Specimen notes
Public Note:
Ōtari Wilton’s Bush, ghost track to Skyline ridge above Moko, on ground in leaflitter, broad leaf podocarp forest.
Small caps, umber buff, striated with paler hydrophanous streaks, darker at the centre, flattened convex, depressed at centre, smooth to slightly scurfy at centre, crenate at the margib; Gills very pale pinkish buff, with a darker gill edge; Stipe slender, slightly cartilaginous with a scurfy appearance in the upper half, almost plum coloured in the top to pinkish buff in lower stipe, with a white, sub-bulbous base. Spore print ample, pinkish brown.
G.S. Ridley
G.S. Ridley
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