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 Pycnoporus coccineus
SynonymsPycnoporus sanguineus
Coriolus cinnabarinus
Coriolus sanguineus
Polyporus cinnabarinus
Polyporus sanguineus
Polystictus cinnabarinus
Polystictus sanguineus
Trametes cinnabarina
Polyporus coccineus
Fomes coccineus
Pycnoporus cinnabarinus
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
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Owner: P.K. Buchanan | 
Caption: on Kauri, Waitakare, 16/07/1965
Owner: Herb. PDD | 
Caption: 95/186
Owner: Peter Buchanan | 
Caption: Watercolour
Owner: G.M. Taylor | |
Article: Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005). Fungi on trees and shrubs in New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. Ngā Harore o Aotearoa 4: xi + 437 p. Hong Kong: Fungal Diversity Press.
Description: Type: Lignicolous Fungi; Description: Basidiomata annual or biennial, with pilei overlapping each other, leathery, attached by a lateral base. Pilei fan-shaped, conchate to applanate, 30–200 mm wide, 2–10 mm thick. Pileus surface radiately striate, concentrically sulcate, finely tomentose, bright orange-red, occasionally concentrically zoned with bands of red and white or grey, margin usually lighter in colour. Pore surface plane or convex, sometimes creviced when older, bright orange red to blood red, with a sterile border 1–3 mm wide; pores 5–6 per mm. Context with alternating white and orange red bands, 2–7 mm thick. Hyphal system trimitic. Basidiospores narrowly elliptical, 3–5 × 1–2 μm, smooth, hyaline.
Distribution: Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Taupo, Wanganui, Wellington, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Nelson, Buller, Westland, Southland.; 1st Record: Berkeley (1855: as Polyporus sanguineus).
Article: Cooke, M.C. (1879). New Zealand fungi. Grevillea 8(46): 54-68.
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