Dysoxylum spectabile (Forst.f.) Hook.f.
Auckland. Little Barrier Island, Nov. 1947, Joan Dingley.
Nothofagus menziesii (Hook.f.) Oerst.
Wellington. Day’s Bay, Aug. 1946, G.B.Rawlings.
Southland. Near Otautau, Nov. 1948, G.B.Rawlings; Woodlaw State Forest, Jan. 1947, G.B.Rawlings.
Weinmannia racemosa L.f.
Southland. Woodlaw, Nov. 1946, G.B.Rawlings.
Unknown Hosts
Auckland. Waipoua Kauri Forest, 1940, G.B.Rawlings.
Wellington. Mt. Kapakapanui, Tararua Ranges, Nov. 1946, A.P.Druce.

Resembling F. marginata in many micro-features the species differs in the smaller pores, differently shaped spores, thinner skeletal hyphae and different shape and surface of the pileus. Plants sometimes exude large drops from the surface of the hymenium. Sometimes these persist for so long that pore tissue grows between them, consequently when drops have disappeared the hymenium exhibits a pitted appearance.

In a former paper (1927, p. 210) I listed F. cuneata as a synonym of F. hemitephra, since Lloyd’s scanty description—based on New Zealand specimens at Kew collected from Nothofagus solandri by W.Colenso—suggested that it belonged to this species. His description of the spores was obviously based on those of some contaminating mould. Lloyd’s photograph of a Tasmanian specimen (1924, p. 1329), shows it to be valid and the same as the collections listed above. His Polyporus suaderis appears to be based on the same plant.

From F. hemitephra it may be separated by the different shape and surface of the pileus, larger spores, and absence of an orange zone beneath the cuticle.