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Cyttaria

Notes

The beech strawberry. Parasite of silver beech, the large, globose, fruiting bodies developing in clusters on galls on living branches. Three species in New Zealand, related to species in Australia and South America, also found as parasites of Nothofagus.

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 Cyttaria darwinii  
 Cyttaria gunnii  
 Cyttaria nigra  
 Cyttaria pallida  
 Cyttaria purdiei