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Trametes coccinea (Fr.) Hai J. Li & S.H. He 2014

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Trametes coccinea (Fr.) Hai J. Li & S.H. He, Mycosystema 33 972 (2014)
Trametes coccinea (Fr.) Hai J. Li & S.H. He 2014

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(Fr.) Hai J. Li & S.H. He
Fr.
Hai J. Li & S.H. He
2014
972
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Trametes coccinea

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coccinea

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On trunks. Coromandel, Waitaki, Maungaroa, Bay of Islands, Banks' Peninsula, Westland, Wellington (Mt. Travers), Melbourne (Australia, 382).
Type: Lignicolous Fungi; Description: Basidiomata annual or biennial, with pilei overlapping each other, leathery, attached by a lateral base. Pilei fan-shaped, conchate to applanate, 30–200 mm wide, 2–10 mm thick. Pileus surface radiately striate, concentrically sulcate, finely tomentose, bright orange-red, occasionally concentrically zoned with bands of red and white or grey, margin usually lighter in colour. Pore surface plane or convex, sometimes creviced when older, bright orange red to blood red, with a sterile border 1–3 mm wide; pores 5–6 per mm. Context with alternating white and orange red bands, 2–7 mm thick. Hyphal system trimitic. Basidiospores narrowly elliptical, 3–5 × 1–2 μm, smooth, hyaline.
Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Taupo, Wanganui, Wellington, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Nelson, Buller, Westland, Southland.; 1st Record: Berkeley (1855: as Polyporus sanguineus).
Significance: None. Birch (1937) recorded this fungus (as Trametes cinnabarina) as the cause of a white heart rot in living Knightia excelsa. It is a ubiquitous saprobe, commonly found on dead trees and logs.; Host(s): Knightia excelsa.

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Boletus coccineus Bull. (1791)
Polystictus sanguineus sensu Colenso (1891) [1890]
Pycnoporus coccineus (Fr.) Bondartsev & Singer 1941
Pycnoporus coccineus (Fr.) Bondartsev & Singer (1941)
Pycnoporus coccineus (Fr.) Bondartsev & Singer (1941)
Pycnoporus sanguineus sensu Hood 1986
Trametes cinnabarina sensu Wakef. (1915)

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16 December 2019
11 March 2021
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