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Hemitrichia

Notes

Fruiting body a sessile or stalked sporangium, or tubular network across surface of substrate. Sterile filaments amongst the spores highly sculptured, spore mass red or yellow. After the wall of the fruiting body breaks the elastic filaments amongst the spores expand in a tangled mass. Four species in New Zealand.
Note that only those species listed below have images or descriptions available through the Virtual Mycota.

Name (click to select)Image (click to enlarge)
 Hemitrichia calyculata  
 Hemitrichia clavata  
 Hemitrichia minor
 Hemitrichia serpula