New Zealand Fungarium - Te Kohinga Hekaheka o Aotearoa
Barcode:
PDD 126765
Specimen type:
Packet
Database record added:
29 January 2026
Database record updated:
29 January 2026
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Coniochaeta scatigena (Berk. & Broome) Cain
Determiner:
D.P. Mahoney
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Coniochaeta scatigena (Berk. & Broome) Cain
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Sordariomycetes
Order:
Coniochaetales
Family:
Coniochaetaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Associations:
has host Lepus europaeus subsp. occidentalis
Substrate:
Brown hare (Lepus europaeus occidentalis) dung
Other components
Active identification
Determined name:
Lepus europaeus subsp. occidentalis
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Lepus europaeus subsp. occidentalis
Division:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Lagomorpha
Identification type:
Determination
Present:
no
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Fiordland National Park, Routeburn Track, near Lake MacKenzie Hut
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-44.768 168.173
Verbatim locality:
Routeburn Track, near Lake MacKenzie Hut
Verbatim collector:
A.E. Bell
Standardised collector:
Ann E. Bell
Collectors reference no.:
AEB 1304
Verbatim date:
30 December 2016
Start date:
2016-12-30
Country:
New Zealand
New Zealand Area Codes:
Fiordland
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Transverse Mercator:
1218142E 5031519N (WGS84 -44.767674 168.17453)
Altitudes:
from 892m
Specimen flags
Component:
Microscope slide
(3)
Specimen notes
Public Note:
Dried herbarium specimen AEB 1304 (2 dung pellets) accompanied by three Shear’s mounting fluid (SMF) glass slides. Other fungi and myxobacteria also present on other hare pellets from this collection (some of which also appear on the pellets in the herbarium specimen): Iodophanus carneus, Pilaira sp., Podospora appendiculata, P. pleiospora, P. tetraspora, Pseudorobillarda phragmitis, Sordaria fimicola, S. superba, Sporormiella intermedia, Thelebolus sp., Trichoder-ma viride and an unidentified myxobacterium.
D.P. Mahoney