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 Malajczukia novae-zelandiae
SynonymsMesophellia novae-zelandiae
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD |
Article: Cunningham, G.H. (1940). The genus Mesophellia in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology. B. General Section 22: 124.
Description: Peridium hypogaean, 3 cm. to 5 cm. diameter, globose or depressed globose. Exoperidium a
thick sand case, fragile, light brown; endoperidium to 8 mm. thick, bay brown, tough and
membranous, somewhat brittle. Gleba pallid cinnamon, fading to ferruginous on exposure,
central core attached by very numerous delicate trabecule basely visible to the eye. Spores
elliptical or spindle shaped, 9 to 14 µ x 5 to 6 µ, hyaline, ends bluntly rounded or bluntly
acuminate, smooth, but with a few wasted remnants of an endospore, a fragment of the pedicel
persisting.
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