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Phallobata albaObserver
johnsteelDescription
In boggy Leptospermum scrub. Several specimens 6 cm long
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New Zealand Broadleaf (Griselinia littoralis)Observer
johnsteelDescription
Growing in Sphagnum bog
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Ranunculus foliosusObserver
johnsteelDescription
Occasional amongst rocks with exotic grasses
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Yellow Fieldcap (Bolbitius titubans)Observer
johnsteelDescription
In sheep grazed pasture of exotic grasses; stipe 5 cm; cap c.4 cm, dry; umbo strongly lemon-yellow; apologies for photo quality.
Photos / Sounds
Observer
johnsteelDescription
Erect shrub; leaves 10x5 mm; branchlet hairs absent; 1st. internode not woody, green streaked red-purple; second internode woody, red-brown; branchlets straight; stipule with one apical tooth, hairs absent; winged petiole.
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False Turkey-Tail (Stereum ostrea)Observer
johnsteelDescription
growing all along dead tree c. 4 m long
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Higher Ascomycetes (Subphylum Pezizomycotina)Observer
johnsteelDescription
On dead twigs
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Scale Insects (Superfamily Coccoidea)Observer
johnsteelDescription
In axils of Muehlenbeckia australis
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Beetle Mites (Suborder Oribatida)Observer
johnsteelDescription
On Menegazzia lichen
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
johnsteelDescription
on dry, rotting tree.
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Genus HypholomaObserver
johnsteelDescription
Underneath decorticated log; gills greenish; largest cap ca. 2 cm, dry.
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Aleurina calosporaObserver
johnsteelDescription
Wet base of vertical clay edge to path through native beec forest; c. 2 cmm diam.; Bowl dark brown; below warty; margin dentate.
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Jelly Babies (Genus Leotia)Observer
johnsteelDescription
In dry, vertical, clay bank; no other vegetation; only top of pileus shewing; stipe not sticky; in edge of Kunzea robusta.
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Cortinarius tessiaeObserver
johnsteelDescription
One only at base of Nothofagus menziesii
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Mataī (Prumnopitys taxifolia)Observer
johnsteelDescription
A few adults and many juveniles in native beec forest