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 Thelephora griseozonata
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
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 commonly rosetted, formed
from several erect flabelliform pilei fused at margins, attached by a central
base; margins entire, or torn, but not lobed; exterior surfaces of pilei
scabrid, exhibiting several concentric, ferruginous, grey, chestnut, or umber
colour zones sometimes demarked by raised strigose tufts on the periphery of
zones; hymenial surface umber, finely tuberculate. Microfeatures as in T.
terrestris.
Habitat: HABITAT: Encrusting humus under pines.
Distribution: DISTRIBUTION: North America, New Zealand.
Notes: Specimens were collected in a plantation of Pinus ponderosa
and match the type in Kew herbarium, ex "Aitken, South Carolina, H. W. Ravenel".
The species is merely a well marked form of T. terrestris, identical in
microfeatures, differing in shape and surface features of pilei and different
habitat. The most marked character is that dorsal surfaces of the pilei are
concentrically zoned with bands of grey and brown, a second that margins of
pilei are fused to form erect infundibuliform rosettes.
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