Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Agaricus umbelliferus L. Sp. Pl. : 1175 (1753); L.:Fr., Elench. fung.: 22 (1828).

=Omphalina ericetorum (Pers: Fr.) H.E. Bigelow, Mycologia 62: 13 (1970).

≡Agaricus ericetorum Fr., Syst. Mycol. 1: 165 (1821).

Description : Flora (1985: 324–325 – as Omphalina ericetorum).

N: South Auckland (Waikato). S: Nelson (Lewis Pass, Rahu Saddle), Otago (Rock & Pillar Ra.), Southland (Awarua Bog, Bluff Hill Walkway). On damp soil, or among Sphagnum, in subalpine or alpine bogs or heaths, from s.l (Awarua Bog) to 1500 m. Still very poorly collected in New Zealand. Known also from Great Britain, Scandinavia, Svalbard, Europe, Tibet, North America and Australia (Lumbsch & Ewers 1992; Purvis et al. 1992; Nimis 1993; Santesson 1993; Kantvilas et al. 1993; Esslinger & Egan 1995; Elvebakk & Hertel 1997; Lutzoni 1997; Kantvilas & Jarman 1999; Scholz 2000; Brodo et al. 2001; Coppins 2002b; McCarthy 2003c, 2006; Nimis & Martellos 2003; Santesson et al. 2004; Obermayer 2004).

Cosmopolitan

Illustrations : Wirth (1995a: 618); Malcolm & Galloway (1977: 147); Lutzoni & Pagel (1997: 11423, fig. 1d); Kantvilas & Jarman (1999: 95); Dobson 2000: 245 – as O. ericetorum; 2005: 287); Brodo et al. (2001: 470, pl. 549); Sérusiaux et al. (2004: 100).

Lichenomphalia umbellifera is characterised by: the terricolous habit; and the pale brownish (never bright-yellow) stipe and mushroom fruiting body.