Porpolomopsis lewelliniae

Porpolomopsis lewelliniae
Porpolomopsis lewelliniae
Hazelbrook, New South Wales
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Genus: Porpolomopsis
Species:
P. lewelliniae
Binomial name
Porpolomopsis lewelliniae
(Kalchbr.) Lodge, Padamsee & S.A. Cantrell (2013)
Synonyms

Hygrophorus lewellinae Kalchbr. (1883)
Hygrocybe lewellinae (Kalchbr.) A. M. Young (1997)
Humidicutis lewelliniae (Kalchbr.) A.M. Young (2005) Mycena rimosacuta Corner (1994)

Porpolomopsis lewelliniae
Gills on hymenium
Cap is umbonate
Hymenium is adnexed
Stipe is bare
Spore print is white
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is unknown

Porpolomopsis lewelliniae, commonly known as the mauve splitting wax-cap, is a gilled fungus of the waxcap family found in wet forests of eastern Australia and New Zealand. The small mauve- or lilac-coloured mushrooms are fairly common and appear in moss or leaf litter on the forest floor in autumn, and are biotrophic. The key distinguishing feature is the splitting of the cap dividing down the middle of the individual gills.