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 Gymnopilus junonius
SynonymsGymnopilus spectabilis
Agaricus junonius
Agaricus spectabilis
Gymnopilus pampeanus
Agaricus pampeanus
Gymnopilus spectabilis subsp. pampeanus
BiostatusPresent in region - Origin uncertain
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Caption: Collection BD81.
Owner: B. Dee | 
Caption: Collection BD81
Owner: B. Dee | 
Caption: Collection BD87. Gills
Owner: B. Dee | 
Owner: Peter Buchanan | 
Caption: Watercolour
Owner: G.M. Taylor | 
Owner: Herb. PDD | 
Caption: Watercolour
Owner: G.M. Taylor | 
Caption: Gymnopilus junonius, under pine, Farewell Spit, March 2008.
Owner: Pete McGregor | 
Owner: Herb. PDD |
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: Lignicolous Fungi; Description: Basidiomata pileate, centrally stipitate, annual, solitary or in large or small clusters. Pileus finely fibrillose to fibrillose-scaly, convex with inturned edges when young, becoming nearly plane, 65–100 mm in diameter or sometimes larger; bright orange yellow or orange brown, smooth, dry; flesh fibrous, firm, up to 15 mm thick at apex, slightly tawny. Gills slightly sinuate to adnate, moderately crowded to crowded, orange yellow to orange brown. Stipe light orange yellow above the tawny, evanescent annulus, orange brown and fibrillose below, cylindrical, slightly swollen at base, somewhat striate, 80–110 mm long. Basidiospores ellipsoid, 8–11 × 5–7 μm, coarsely warty, yellowish brown; spore print rusty brown.
Distribution: Distribution: Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Taupo, Wanganui, Wellington, Gisborne, Wairarapa, Nelson, North Canterbury, Mid Canterbury.; 1st Record: Taylor (1981).
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