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 Tubaria furfuracea
SynonymsAgaricus furfuraceus
BiostatusPresent in region - Exotic
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Caption: wood chip mushroom
Owner: B. Dee | 
Caption: Wood chip mushroom
Owner: B. Dee | 
Caption: wood chip mushroom
Owner: B. Dee | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper |
Article: Massee, G.E. (1899) [1898]. The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349 Wellington:.
Description: Pileus rather fleshy at the disc, convex, then plane, margin spreading, at length depressed or
umbilicate, yellowish-cinnamon, paler and hoary or silky-squamulose, due to the breaking-up
of the cuticle when dry, 1.5-5 cm. across; gills adnato-decurrent, rather distant, about 3 mm.
broad, cinnamon; spores elliptical, 10 x 6 µ ; stem 2-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick, rigid, usually
paler than the stem, minutely flocculose, base surrounded with white down, hollow.
Habitat: On twigs, chips, &c., lying on the ground.
Distribution: Dannevirke, New Zealand. Australia, Tasmania,
Ceylon, Europe, United States, Brazil.
Notes: Distinguished by the cinnamon colour of every part when moist, becoming almost white
when dry, and the surface being very minutely broken up into squamules.
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