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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Stereum sanguinolentum. Stereum sanguinolentum

Synonyms

Poria sanguinolenta
Thelephora sanguinolenta

Biostatus

Present in region - Exotic

Article: Dingley, J.M. (1969). Records of plant diseases in New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin 192: 298 p. Wellington:.

Article: Cunningham, G.H. (1963). The Thelephoraceae of Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin 145: 359 p. Wellington:.
Description: Hymenophore annual, coriaceous, solitary, caespitose, or imbricate. Pilei effused-reflexed with broad resupinate bases, or almost resupinate with reflexed margins, loosely attached, 5-10 mm radius, 5-30 mm wide, or when laterally connate to 10 x 2.5 cm; pileus surface straw colour or bay, radiately zoned with darker bands, sulcate and striate, covered with appressed tomentum, somewhat strigose near the base; hymenial surface at first even, wood colour or ochre, becoming ferruginous, pallid umber or sometimes plum when old, finally deeply radiately, sometimes.areolately creviced. Context white, then isabelline, to 0.5 mm thick, of radiately arranged parallel hyphae with a coloured cortex beneath the abhymenial hairs and sometimes also coloured beneath the hymenium; generative hyphae 4-6 µm diameter, walls 0.5-1 µm thick, without clamp connections. Conducting hyphae arising in the context and extending through the hymenial layer, scarcely projecting, 80-200 x 4-6 µm, walls 0.5 µm thick, contents granular and discoloured. Hymenial layer to 90 µm deep, a dense palisade of basidia, paraphyses, and conducting hyphae. Basidia subclavate , 25-32 x 4-5.5 µm, bearing 2 spores; sterigmata slender, erect to 6 µm long. Paraphyses subclavate, 18-26 x 4-4.5 µm. Spores cylindrical or allantoid, with rounded ends, 6-8 x 2.5-3 µm, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µm thick.

Habitat: HABITAT: Bark of dead branches and trunks of conifers.

Distribution: DISTRIBUTION: Europe, Great. Britain, North America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand.

Notes: Pilei are mostly effused-reflexed with broad resupinate bases, and sometimes arise from borer holes in the substratum. Conspicuous conducting hyphae are present in the context and hymenial layer. They exude a reddish fluid when the surface of living specimens is cut or bruised. Spores are narrowly cylindrical with rounded ends, or as often allantoid. In the collection from Dacrydium cupressinum they are somewhat larger (to 10 x 4 µm), than those from other hosts listed, but agree with authentic European specimens in other particulars. The species was made the type of Haematostereum Pouzar (1959, p. 13).


Article: Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005). Fungi on trees and shrubs in New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. Ngā Harore o Aotearoa 4: xi + 437 p. Hong Kong: Fungal Diversity Press.
Description: Type: Caulicolous Fungi; Description: Basidiomata annual, resupinate with reflexed margins to semipileate. Pilei effused-reflexed with broad resupinate bases, loosely attached, 10–20 mm in diameter. Pileus surface hirsute-tomentose, undulating, straw coloured, radially zoned with darker bands, margin whitish. Pore surface smooth to tuberculate, wrinkled, yellow brown to ochre, often with a violet tinge, turning blood-red when injured, margin lighter. Context reddish yellow, up to 500 μm thick. Hyphal system dimitic. Cystidia none. Basidiospores elliptic-cylindrical, 6–8 × 2–3 μm, amyloid.
Distribution: Distribution: Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Wellington, Nelson.; 1st Record: Birch (1937).