Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-40.335047 175.810146
Specimen notes
Public Note:
[GS] Growing horizontally out of a bank beside a track in broadleaf-podocarp forest. About 20 mm in length. Most of the branch tips sharply pointed. [JAC] material dimitic, tough. Basidia longitudianlly septate, bulbous when immature, 4-spored. Hyphae clamped. Spores 13x7, variable, no repetition seen. The size of the spores suggests this is T. pusio rather than flagelliformis but NZ species are not well defined in my opinion, despite the treatment by Petersen, Mycotaxon v29, p45, 1987. Note that Aphelaria (based on A. dendroides) is probably a Tremelodendropsis and provides the oldr generc name. The degree of basidia sepatation is variable and not a reliable separator. That leaves the key difference between Aphelaria an Tremellodendropsis as unclamped hyphae/basidia in the former, and clamped in the latter. Monomitic/dimitic also different. Possibly macroscopically Aphelaria always has a Ramarioid form, rather than Clavarioid.