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Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn. 1954

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Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn., Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 82 296 (1954)

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G. Cunn.
G. Cunn.
1954
296
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Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn. 1954
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Corticium afibulatum

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afibulatum

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Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn. 1954

Hymenophore annual, adnate, ceraceous, effused, forming orbicular or linear areas to 20 x 8 cm., with several outlying islands; surface cream, then ochre, colliculose, not creviced; margin thinning out, white, byssoid, adnate. Context white, 200-350 µ thick, composed of a narrow base of densely compacted cemented hyphae, and an intermediate layer of woven mainly vertical hyphae densely compacted beneath the hymenium, embedding a few scattered crystals; generative hyphae 3-4 µ diameter, wall 0.5-1 µ thick, naked, hyaline, branched, septate, without clamp connections. Hymenial layer to 90 µ deep, of basidia, paraphyses and gloeocystidia densely compacted. Basidia subclavate or subcylindrical, projecting, 12-16 x 3-4 µ, 4-spored; sterigmata slender, to 6 µ long. Paraphyses subclavate, much smaller than the basidia. Gloeocystidia arising in the intermediate layer, projecting to 20 µ, or not, cylindrical, a few fusiform, 40-90 x 6-8 µ, wall 1-2 µ thick, some irregularly distributed in the context, inclined, to 60 x 12 µ. Spores broadly elliptical, some apiculate, 4-5.5 x 2.5-3 µ, wall smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µ thick.
DISTRIBUTION. New Zealand.
HABITAT. Effused on bark of dead trunks.
Hymenophorum ceraceum, adnatum, effusum; , superficie cremea deinde ochracea, colliculosa, non rimosa. Hyphae contextus afibulatae, 3-4 µ diam., nudae. Basidia 12-16 x 3-4 µ, 4 sporis. Gloeocystidia 40-90 x 6-8 µ. Sporae laete ellipticae, 4-5.5 x 2.5-3 µ, laeves, hyalinae.
Specific features are the finely colliculose, closely adnate, non-creviced, ochraceous, ceraceous hymenophore, narrow cylindrical abundant gloeocystidia and small, broadly elliptical spores. Clamp connections are absent from hyphae of this and the following species [C. crystallitectum]. A few crystals are scattered in the base of the context of old specimens.
Corynocarpus laevigata Forst. Auckland: Buffalo Beach, Whitianga, November, 1947, E.E. Chamberlain, type collection, P.D.D. herbarium, No. 7421.

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Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn. 1954
Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn. (1954)
Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn. 1954
Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn. (1954)
Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn. 1954
Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn. (1954)

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Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn. 1954
New Zealand
Coromandel
Corticium afibulatum G. Cunn. 1954
New Zealand
Taranaki

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