New Zealand Fungi

DSC_1876 (Phallobata alba) sliced cross section showing gleba at the base, and the elongated sterile lobes of the fruiting body, found in cloud forest in June 2020. There is only the one species in the genus, and it also occurs in Australia. It usually grows from buried decaying wood. Otago *

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