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Pisolithus

Notes

Fruiting bodies irregularly globose in shape, yellow-brown. Powdery, brownish spore mass revealed when wall breaks down irregularly. In New Zealand found only on soil in thermal areas of the crentral North Island, mycorrhizal on roots of the local prostrate Kunzea.
Four species in New Zealand, all found also in Australia. Only those species listed below treated in the Virtual Mycota.

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 Pisolithus arhizus
 Pisolithus sp. 10