Callistosporium vinosobrunneum

Callistosporium vinosobrunneum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Callistosporium
Species: C. vinosobrunneum
Binomial name
Callistosporium vinosobrunneum
Desjardin & Hemmes (2011)
known only from Hawaii

Callistosporium vinosobrunneum is a species of agaric fungus in the Tricholomataceae family. Newly described to science in 2011, it is known only from Hawaiian montane wet forests on the islands of Hawaiʻi and Kauaʻi.

Taxonomy

The species was first described scientifically by mycologists Dennis Desjardin and Don Hemmes in 2011 in Mycologia. Desjardin collected the holotype specimen in Kauaʻi, in Kōkeʻe State Park in January 2009. The specific epithet vinosobrunneum refers to the dark reddish-brown color of the fruit bodies.[1]

Description

The shape of the cap is convex to flattened, and it is translucent with slight grooves, reaching a diameter of 14–20 mm (0.55–0.79 in). The cap surface is smooth, moist, and hygrophanous. Dark reddish-brown near the center, the color fades slightly approaching the margin. The flesh is thin—between 0.5 and 1 mm—and pale grayish to reddish brown. The gills are adnexed or sinuate, seceding in maturity. They are somewhat distantly spaced, with two to four series of interspersed lamellulae (short gills). The gills are reddish brown, and may have a lavender tint. The stem, which is roughly the same color as the cap, measures 2.5 to 3.0 cm (1.0 to 1.2 in) long by 2–2.5 mm thick, and is either more or less equal in width throughout its length or is slightly enlarged in the lower part. The mushroom lacks any distinctive taste or odor.[1]

The spores are ovoid (egg-shaped), smooth, hyaline (translucent), thin-walled, and contain one oil droplet; they measure 6.5–8 by 5–6.5 μm. The basidia (spore-bearing cells) are club-shaped, four-spored with sterigma that are 2.5–5 μm long, and measure 27–36 by 8–10 μm.[1]

Distribution and habitat

Callistosporium vinosobrunneum grows solitarily to scattered on the rotting wood of the flowering evergreen tree ʻōhiʻa lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha). It is endemic to the islands of Hawaiʻi and Kauaʻi.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Desjardin DE, Hemmes DE. (2011). "Agaricales of the Hawaiian Islands 9. Five new white-spored species from native montane wet forests". Mycologia. 103 (6): 1441–50. doi:10.3852/11-114.

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