PDD 84168 – Lactarius tawai McNabb
Data provider:
New Zealand Fungarium - Te Kohinga Hekaheka o Aotearoa
Barcode:
PDD 84168
Specimen type:
Packet
Database record added:
13 December 2005
Database record updated:
03 August 2010
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Lactarius tawai McNabb
Determiner:
P.L. Leonard
Determiners reference no.:
GMT 428
Identification date:
2006-03-08 (Verbatim: 2006/03/08)
Preferred name:
Lactarius tawai McNabb
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Russulales
Family:
Russulaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Associations:
has host totara
Substrate:
soil
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Lactarius Pers.
Determiner:
G.M. Taylor
Determiners reference no.:
GMT 428
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Lactarius Pers.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Identification
Determined name:
Lactarius
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Lactarius Pers.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Other components
Active identification
Determined name:
totara
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Podocarpus totara D.Don
Division:
Pteridophyta
Class:
Pinopsida
Order:
Pinales
Family:
Podocarpaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Present:
no
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Unknown
Standard locality
Location:
Makarora, Pipsen's Creek
Verbatim locality:
Makarora, Pipsen's Creek
Verbatim collector:
L.R. Taylor
Standardised collector:
L. R. Taylor
Verbatim date:
1968/04/14
Start date:
1968-04-14
New Zealand Area Codes:
Otago Lakes
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Nothofagus-Podocarp forest
Keywords:
Nothofagus-Podocarp forest
Specimen notes
Public Note:
Silver beech with podocarps (understorey of totara); Singly; height: to 6 cm; pileus: to 9 cm diam. convex umbilicate becoming infundibuliform with margin curled under. Colour generally pinkish or reddish brown, surface covered with radially arranged loose fur, zones of darker and lighter colour, centre generally paler and margin also pale and furry, darkest colour in outer 1/3 of cap, colour variable, possibly darker in older speciments. Skin not peeling easily. Flesh whitish or pale apricot. Plant exudes white milky juice, unchanging. Taste very peppery - instantaneous reaction. Flesh slowly becomes darker on exposure; stipe: to 1.8 cm at gills, short and stumpy, tapered to the base. Apricot or pinkish brown matt surface of suede-like texture. Flesh as for cap, continous with cap, tending to break down in the centre under the umbilicus. Some thick tought basal strands holding a clump of soil; gills: shortly decurrent, very shallow, long and short (not forked) pale creamy apricot. About 20 per cm at the margin; spore: print white; Beside the creek, immediately under totara, but silver beech the dominant tree. This association is described as 'Podocarpus totara' this must be incorrect as it occurs only with Nothofagus sp.
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