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Dacryopinax

Notes

A member of the Dacrymycetales (the Order characterised by the furcate basidia - forked with 2 long terminal branches and 2 sterigmata), and within the Order characterised by fruiting body stipitate-piletae, spathulate, cupulate, flabellate or foliose, hymenium inferior, unilateral or confined to interior of cup, abhymenial surface covered with usually thick-walled hairs.
A single New Zealand species, saprobic on wood.

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 Dacryopinax spathularius