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Russula tapawera (T. Lebel) T. Lebel 2007
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ETYMOLOGY: Specific epithet refers to the collection location of the holotype, Tapawera Rd.
NOTES: Macowanites tapawera is one of the few species of sequestrate Russulales from Australia or New Zealand with an olivaceous tint to the peridium and in which the peridium bruises purple-brown to black in some specimens. As such it differs significantly from other New Zealand species, which range in peridial colour from white to brown or red. Macowanites tapawera is the only species with clavate peridial cystidia (35-55 µm long); the peridiopellii of other New Zealand taxa are comprised of fusoid or ventricose cystidia (10-25 µm long) or of hyphal tips. The only other New Zealand species with low, partially reticulate spore ornamentation, Gymnomyces parvisaxoides, may be differentiated from M. tapawera by the white peridium with pale yellow or orange-brown patches and lack of clavate peridial cystidia and large hymenial cystidia.