New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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A new species of Vibrissea from North Island, New Zealand

G. BEATON

4 Eighth Street
Eildon, Victoria, Australia

GRETNA WESTE

School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

AbstractVibrissea albofusca Beaton sp. nov., from New Zealand, is distinguished from other species of Vibrissea Fr. particularly by its whitish stipe and dark brown pileus. Colour characteristics are more reliable indicators of specific differences among Australasian species of Vibrissea than are structural variations or the dimensions of fruiting bodies. Another possible new species of Vibrissea, which has a whitish stipe and ivory pileus, cannot yet be formally proposed because of insufficient material.

Keywordsnew taxa; Vibrissea albofusca; descriptions; taxonomy; New Zealand fungi

Received 21 February 1983
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1983, Vol. 21 : 281-283
0028-825X/83/2103-0281S2.50/0 © Crown copyright 1983

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