name | Catatrama sp-C-Kerala01 | ||||||||
name status | cryptonomen temporarium | ||||||||
english name | "Kerala Catatrama" | ||||||||
synonyms |
=Catatrama costaricensis sensu Vrinda et al.
2000.
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pileus | 30 - 65 mm wide, "light brown" (7D5), convex to plane, broadly umbonate; context white, up to 4.5 mm thick above stipe, thinning toward margin; margin appendiculate, nonstriate, becoming uplifted with age, occasionally splitting; squamules "reddish brown" (8E8), appressed and fibrillose near margin, upcurving elsewhere, sometimes washed off by rain. | ||||||||
lamellae | free, close, creamy white with concolorous and entire edge, up to 9 mm broad; lamellulae of diverse lengths. | ||||||||
stipe | 40 - 70 × 4 - 8 mm, "light brown" (7D5), central, cylindric, undecorated above annulus; base narrowly clavate, bearing white mycelial cords; context white, solid; annulus superior, fragile, eventually as indistinct zone, shown as dark in line drawing; squamules moderately closely placed and extending from below partial veil to near base, "reddish brown" (8E8), recurved. | ||||||||
odor/taste | Odor pleasant, flower-like. Taste not recorded. | ||||||||
macrochemical tests |
none recorded. | ||||||||
pileipellis | repent cutis. | ||||||||
pileus context | filamentous hyphae 7.5 - 23 μm wide; clamps occasional. | ||||||||
lamella trama | divergent from mediostratum, inamyloid; filamentous hyphae 7.5 - 22.5 μm wide, hyaline, thin-walled. | ||||||||
subhymenium | pseudoparenchymatous. | ||||||||
basidia | 32 - 36 × 9 - 10 μm, clavate, 4-sterigmate. | ||||||||
universal veil |
[Note: Read "squamules" for "universal
veil."—ed.] On pileus: filamentous hyphae not described; inflated cells in short chains (trichodermium-like), anticlinal, grouped as tufts. On stipe: not described. | ||||||||
stipe context | not described. | ||||||||
partial veil | not described. | ||||||||
lamella edge tissue | not described. | ||||||||
basidiospores |
6 - 7.5 × 5.3 - 7.5 μm, (?)globose,
echinulate, inamyloid, lacking a germ pore. [Note: Without a range of Q values, a sporograph cannot be generated. Based on the drawings of spores in the description of Vrinda et al. (2000), It is possible to project that spore measurements were not consistently made in lateral view. One spore that appears to be in lateral view (using the scale provided) is 8.2 × 6.8 μm with Q = 1.22. Hence, the range of spore shape is probably (?)globose to broadly ellipsoid.—ed.] | ||||||||
ecology | Scattered. On soil in litter. | ||||||||
material examined | INDIA: KERALA—Ernakulam Distr. - Iringole sacred grove, 23.viii.1997 Pradeep 4079 (K; TBGT); 3.vii.1998 Sibi 4345 (K; TBGT). | ||||||||
discussion |
Vrinda et al. (2000)
reported that cystidia were lacking. This species was originally described as Catatrama costaricensis, but it may be a distinct species. | ||||||||
citations | —R. E. Tulloss | ||||||||
editors | RET | ||||||||
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