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 Phellinus robustus
SynonymsFomes setulosus
Fomes robinsoniae
Fomes robustus
Pyropolyporus robinsoniae
Fomitiporia robusta
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
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Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD | 
Caption: Phellinus robustus
Owner: Nils Hallenberg | 
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Owner: Peter Buchanan |
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 perennial, solitary, firm and woody, attached by a broad lateral base. Pilei ungulate, applanate or occasionally subglobose, 50–300 mm wide, 30–150 mm thick. Pileus surface tomentose, concentrically coarsely sulcate and ridged, frequently creviced when old, at first cinnamon brown, darkening to black, margin entire, reddish brown. Pore surface plane, often creviced, with a sterile border 2–5 mm wide, reddish brown to dark brown; pores stratose, small, 5–7 per mm. Context cinnamon brown. Hyphal system dimitic. Setae usually present, ventricose, base inflated and narrowing towards the attachment point, apex acute, 16–24 × 6–12 μm, chestnut brown. Basidiospores globose to subglobose, 6–7 × 5–6 μm, smooth, hyaline.
Distribution: Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Taupo, Wellington, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Nelson, Buller, Westland, Fiordland, Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough, Kaikoura, Mid Canterbury, Central Otago, Dunedin, Southland, Stewart Island.; 1st Record: Cunningham (1927: as Fomes robustus).
Article: Dingley, J.M. (1969). Records of plant diseases in New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin 192: 298 p. Wellington:.
Notes: Cunningham (1948f) misidentified some specimens of this fungus as Fomes setulosus.
It is responsible for a pocket heart rot of a number of indigenous timber trees.
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