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Hymenogaster

Notes

Truffle-like, ectomycorrhizal fungi. Hymenogaster in its traditional sense is polyphyletic, and characterised by lacking a columella and by having basal rhizomorphs. In its strict sense, Hymenogaster is characterised by its large, thick-walled, broad-ellipsoid to fusiform spores with a large, cupped hilar appendix.
Represented by a single species in New Zealand, reported by Cunningham, but with apparently no specimens in PDD.

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 Hymenogaster aureus  
 Hymenogaster effodiendus  
 Hymenogaster fusisporus  
 Hymenogaster macrosporus  
 Hymenogaster monosporus  
 Hymenogaster nanus  
 Hymenogaster tasmanicus  
 Hymenogaster viscidus