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Gliophorus lilacipes


Gliophorus lilacipes
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Copyright: Steve Reekie (LordPotty) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1449 W: 146 N: 3764] (12035)
Genre: Fungi
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-05-10
Categories: Rain Forest
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5
Exposure: f/8
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Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): New Zealand Fungi [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2009-05-16 17:37
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Gliophorus lilacipes
Family: Tricholomataceae

Common Name: None
Found: Broad-leaved Forest
Substrate: Forest floor
Spores: White
Height: 60 mm
Width: 15 mm
Season: Early winter
Edible: No
(Hidden Forest)

Article: Horak, E. (1990). Monograph of the New Zealand Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). New Zealand Journal of Botany 28(3): 255-306 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: Pileus -45 mm, hemispherical becoming planoconvex, broadly umbilicate in aged specimens brilliant green-blue, fading to blue-brown or greenish blue, darker at centre; glutinous, margin striate, hygrophanous, glabrous. - Lamellae 8-14 (1 -3) distant, broadly adnate to decurrent; lilac-blue or pale green-blue, fading with age, edges concolorous with gelatinised, grey thread. - Stipe 20-60 x 25 mm, cylindrical, equal to attenuated towards apex; lilac to pale blue above, yellowish or ochraceous at base; glutinous, hollow, single. - Context brilliant lilac in upper portion of stipe, yellow-orange in base, reddish on drying. - Odour and taste not distinctive. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - orange to pink; HCI, NH3 - negative. Spores 5-7 x 3-4um, ovoid. - Basidia 25-45 x 5-6 um, 4-spored. - Cheilocystidia forming sterile edge, composed of cylindrical, densely interwoven hyphae (2-6 um diam.), occasionally branched at tips, membrane strongly gelatinised. -Pileipellis an ixocutis of repent to suberect, cylindrical hyphae (27 um diam.), sometimes with branched tips, membranes strongly gelatinised, with plasmatic pigment; clamp connections present.
Habitat: ECOLOGY: Common; saprobic on soil among litter in broadleaved-conifer forests Nothofagus Leptospermum, Weinmannia, Dacrydium, Agathis), occasionally also on rotten wood or on debris of tree fems. January-June.
Distribution: DISTRIBUTION: NZ (NA, G, WL, SL).
(Landcare Research)

This is an extremely variable species and is often confused with other similar looking fungi.
I found these ones on the Coal Creek walkway at Runanga,just north of Greymouth.
Hope you like.
Cheers
Steve
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There live in the darker areas some certain Sprites and things of which cannot be seen outside the true nature ether...in places like this one can actually hear the small teeny voices and every so often a slight glow....as Sprites are most mischievous....I know..I was smitten by one and it's story is long but through the Golden Light I came out of it and was saved by the good Ms. Jane...A true story in which crosses fell , turned black and injured the skin..I have lived through it..no tale...just Bob...and still alive to speak of such things as you image...I wonder...can you feel it as well? You certainly lookas though you live and image it as you have been there and back..
Bob

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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3824 W: 190 N: 11393] (35107)
  • [2009-05-16 21:51]

Hello Steve,
Though we have spring species, it's been too dry for any of them to show up and as you are in the autumn now this is a very suitable shot.
The whole image drips with moisture, the gelatinous fungi, the mosses ferns and leaves, all set in a fine well-coloured composition and apt setting for this fungal species.
Thanks and have a good week,
Cheers,
Ivan

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  • roges Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 613 W: 0 N: 546] (3180)
  • [2009-05-17 1:22]

Hallo STEVE !

A superb macro very surprised!
Excellent color contrast and excellent description provided.
Have a beautiful day,
Adrian

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  • foozi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1339 W: 0 N: 2582] (9107)
  • [2009-05-17 5:59]

Hi Lord,
this one looks like what I have posted. But bigger and moist. This one is more slimy it seems. You captured it very well and the surrounding is well depicted in excellent clarity.
Well seen and i like the mosses and lichen too.

Regards,
Foozi.

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  • tuslaw Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 511 W: 20 N: 1392] (4861)
  • [2009-05-17 19:01]

Exceptional detail and wonderful DOF in this shot Steve!!
Love the lighting, textures and beautiful colors. You can almost smell the soil and plant life in this photo!! TFS.
Ron

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2705 W: 74 N: 8864] (30243)
  • [2009-05-18 4:24]

Hi Steve!

Excellent shot from microforest. Few species of moses and other plants are well visible. Fungi looks quite wet. This could be taken in Poland during late autumn also. Unfortunatelly we've got drought here so no fungi during last weeks.

Hello Steve,
nice to being neighbour with you.
this is great shot and like a botany lesson. all of them present here, not only fungi, but also several species of mosses and liverworths. great presentation and great composition. as like focus, colors and lighting, POV/DOF also great. thanks for sharing, best wishes my friend
Ahmet

Ciao Steve, beautiful cuple of lovely fungi with fine details and splendid sharpness, wonderful colors, very well done, ciao Silvio

Hi Steve,
This is something I can't see here momentarily (and not only this specie which doesn't grow outside of NZ): fresh green moss and fungi with wet cap... There's drought here now, and although the weather forecast promised rain for each day of this week, there's already Wednesday, it wasn't raining yet...
Tfs the great pic of this interesting endemic NZ specie.
Best regards, László

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