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Metatrichia

Notes

Fruiting body a sessile or stalked sporangium, often in clusters. Opening by a preformed operculum. Sterile filaments amongst the spores highly sculptured. Spore mass red. After the wall of the fruiting body breaks the elastic filaments amongst the spores expand in a tangled mass. Two species in New Zealand.
Note that only those species listed below have images or descriptions available through the Virtual Mycota.

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 Metatrichia floriformis  
 Metatrichia vesparium