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 Lentinus suffrutescens
SynonymsLentinus lepideus
Neolentinus lepideus
Neolentinus suffrutescens
Agaricus lepideus
Agaricus suffrutescens
BiostatusPresent in region - Exotic
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Caption: Occurring for several years at least on a fallen pine log on the Kauri Point Walkway, on the edge of the Tauranga Harbour, just north of Katikati. The largest ones had a diameter of 32cm.
Owner: Shirley Kerr | 
Caption: Occurring for several years at least on a fallen pine log on the Kauri Point Walkway, on the edge of the Tauranga Harbour, just north of Katikati. The largest ones had a diameter of 32cm.
Owner: Shirley Kerr |
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 fleshy, tough, convex, then depressed and unequal, pale dingy-ochraceous, becoming
broken up into darker spot-like squamules, 4-8 cm. across; flesh 4-6 mm. thick at the disc,
white; gills decurrent, slightly sinuate, 4-6 mm, broad, margin irregular, torn, transversely
striate, whitish or tinged with yellow; spores narrowly elliptical, smooth, 7 x 3 µ; stem
usually 2-3 cm. long but sometimes longer, about 1 cm. thick, tapering below into a rooting
base, hard, pale, with downy squamules, the veil soon disappearing.
Habitat: On logs, stumps, &c.
Distribution: Dannevirke, New Zealand. Australia, Europe, Siberia, United States.
Notes: Showy, large, firm, much deformed, often somewhat excentric ; smell pleasant. Often white.
Developing into very grotesque forms when growing in dark situations.
Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: This species, common and widespread outside New Zealand, was collected at Hokio, 30.8.1948 and is recorded by Massee (1898).
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