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Ganoderma australe (Fr.) Pat. 1889

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Ganoderma australe (Fr.) Pat., Bull. Soc. Mycol. France 5 71 (1889)
Ganoderma australe (Fr.) Pat. 1889

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(Fr.) Pat.
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Pat.
1889
71
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Ganoderma australe

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australe

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Cunningham (1948f; 1965) and Gilmour (1966a) recorded this fungus as a common white heart rot of indigenous and introduced trees. It is of importance in over-mature indigenous forest.

Ganoderma australe (Fr.) Pat. 1889

Type: Lignicolous Fungi; Description: Basidiomata perennial, solitary, hard, woody, attached by a broad lateral base. Pilei applanate, 70–300 mm wide, 30–130 mm thick. Pileus surface concentrically sulcate, sometimes weakly radially ridged or warty, grey, frequently brown with a dusting of spores, margin rounded, cream, 2–7 mm wide. Pore surface even or slightly pitted, with a cream sterile margin 1–7 mm wide, white to light grey, sometimes with large areas tinted orange, pores indistinctly stratose, 3–5 per mm. Context weakly zonate, dark brown. Hyphal system trimitic. Basidiospores ovoid, 11–14 × 7–9 μm, punctate, appearing verruculose, pale brown.
Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Taupo, Wellington, Nelson, Buller, Westland, Marlborough, North Canterbury, Mid Canterbury, Otago Lakes, Central Otago, Dunedin.; 1st Record: Berkeley (1855: as Polyporus australis).
Significance: A common white heart rot of no significance.; Host(s): Acacia dealbata, Agathis australis, Dacrydium cupressinum, Nothofagus menziesii, N. solandri var. cliffortioides, Prumnopitys taxifolia, Salix sp.

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Fomes australis (Fr.) Cooke (1885)
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Fomes nigrolaccatus sensu Lloyd (1915)
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Polyporus australis Fr. (1828)
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taxonomic status
Use of names in this group is massively confused. See loc. cit.

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25 November 1993
1 November 2012
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