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 Mesophellia glauca
SynonymsMalajczukia glauca
Diploderma glaucum
BiostatusPresent in region - Exotic
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Caption: Mesophelia glauca under Eucalyptus, REB 1472
Owner: R.E. Beever | 
Caption: Mesophelia glauca under Eucalyptus, REB 1085
Owner: R.E. Beever |
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: Mycorrhizal Fungi; Description: Basidiomata hypogeous, globose, subglobose or lobed, concolorous with the substrate, 10–40 mm in diameter; peridium composed of three layers: the exoperidium comprising a complete case formed from particles of the surrounding substrate (e.g., sand, soil, or litter) tightly bound into a hard, black layer by pigmented hyphae; the mesoperidium consisting of a network of the tree rootlets embedded in hyaline hyphae; and the endoperidium forming a creamy white layer not penetrated by rootlets from the mesoperidium. Gleba olivaceous to smoky grey, powdery at maturity; capillitium threads hyaline, unbranched; core concolorous with the endoperidium, occupying about half of the glebal cavity; attached by a few widely spaced, flattened tuberculae about 2 mm thick. Basidiospores elliptical, 0-septate, 8–13 × 4–6 μm, mostly smooth but occasionally finely warted, hyaline but faintly tinted in mass, with or without a short pedicel.
Distribution: Distribution: Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taupo.
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