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Tephrocybe sp. 'Mt Holdsworth (PDD 87392)'

Has white basal rhizoids. No smell, no taste. Spores hyaline, not amyloid or dextrinoid. No cheilocystidia or pleurocystidia. Cap a cutis with gelatinized surface layer. Not ramealis but weakly nodulose. With dextrinoid sub-cutis. Clamped. 4-spored. 6x3um. No caulocystidia. Sequence identical to PDD72743. ITS+LSU no support. A gen. nov., not Tephrocybe. (written in 2007 - and now at least with a genus name Tricholyophyllum)

Gill edge concolorous. Cap finely fibrous, not differentiated, consisting of elongate cylindrical cells with obtuse apex. Without pleurocystidia. With oleiferous hyphae in hymenium. Cheilocystidia numerous and lageniform with occasional utriform ones. Spores length=7.5–8.4µm (µ=8.0, σ=0.3), width=5.8–6.9µm (µ=6.4, σ=0.3), Q=1.2–1.3µm (µ=1.3, σ=0.0), n=9.

Clusters of bright orange mushrooms growing in rotten wood at the base of a standing dead tree in native bush. Cap size up to 55 mm, darker at the centre, more yellowish towards the margin. Stipe slightly yellow. Gills free, whitish colour, spore print pinkish.

Uncommon. On clay bank amongst rawirinui (Kunzea robusta) leaves and twigs under a dense canopy of that species. Most notable feature of this fruiting body was its leathery (coriaceous) texture.

Voucher: P.J. de Lange 14142 & T.J.P. de Lange, PDD

Entoloma sp. "Sky Blue"
CS 3174
14 May 2019
iNat
Latham's Track, Awakeri, NZ
Cap 16-45 mm. Plane to slightly wavy-uplifted, with very with diffuse, low, round umbo.
Beautiful royal blue at center, sky blue outwards, margin opaque. Surface dry, slightly virgate-rivulose with a white sheen in protected areas, tufts of fine pale whitish-blue or whitish fibrils concentrated at disc, becoming patchier outwards and wearing off in age. Cap flesh thin to practically nonexistent, whitish.
Gills broadly attached, well-spaced to subdistant, rather pallid pinkish, margins slightly serrate to somewhat eroded; beaded with white clumps of cells (cheilocystidia?).
Stipe 25-70 x 3-9 mm. White to creamy, lustrous-shiny, vertically striate with irregular transverse wrinkles. Flesh white, solid.
Odor indistinct, taste indistinct.

Growing on a rotting log in broadleaf-podocarp forest. Sessile fruit bodies up to 30 mm across by 15 mm, fawn-grey. Gills fawn and fawn-grey. Fruit bodies connected by thin white rhizoids within the substrate.

Growing on rotting wood lying on the ground in broadleaf-podocarp forest. Caps to 50 mm across, red-brown becoming fawn-brown, radially striate. Gills white becoming pinkish, free of stem. Stems whitish-fawn, pruinose.

Growing on a very rotten log in broadleaf-podocarp forest. Caps fawn-brown, paler towards the margin, with some blackening in patches, up to 50 mm across. Gills white but with black sooty-like spots that increase in size with age, attached to stem. Stem whitish initially, eventually becoming black and sooty in appearance. Spore print white.