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Trichia

Notes

Fruiting body a sessile or stalked sporangium, or tubular network across surface of substrate. After the wall of the fruiting body breaks the elastic filaments amongst the spores expand in a tangled mass of very fine filaments. Spore mass initially yellow or brown. Nine 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)
 Trichia botrytis  
 Trichia contorta
 Trichia crateriformis
 Trichia decipiens
 Trichia erecta
 Trichia favoginea  
 Trichia lutescens
 Trichia scabra
 Trichia varia  
 Trichia verrucosa