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Text-fig. 1, J.

Receptacula –1.5 cm., alta, solitaria vel caespitulosa, pallido-roseo-ochracea, came rugosa lenta; subsimplicia vel furcata semel bis ter, ramis cylindricis vel paulum attenuatis; terrestria: sporis 10–13.5 × 6–8μ, albis levibus, granulis praeditis: basidis et hyphis sicut in T. transpusio.

Type: No. 322 Rai Valley, Nelson, New Zealand, Julius, 1949.

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Distrbution: Nelson District, New Zealand.

Fruit body –1.5 cm. high, solitary to caespitose, dull pinkish-buff, slightly rugose, subsimple to irregularly branched 1–3 times, cylindrical to slightly flattened, tips tapering or rounded, spreading. On the ground under Nothofagus truncata.

Spores 10–13.3 × 6–8μ, smooth walled, contents granular, vacuolated.

Basidia and hyphae as for T. transpusio.

Differs from T. transpusio in the smaller pink fruit body and wider spores (see Table II).

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Table II
Spore Range in T. transpusio and Varieties
Specimen Range Average No. Averaged E*
Type
No. 242 11.2–15.3 × 4.2–6.3μ 13.1 × 5.4μ 50 2.4 T. transpusio
No. 310 10.5–15 × 4.9–7μ 13.4 × 5.5μ 15 2.4 T. transpusio
Type
No. 241 9.1–12.6 × 4.2–6.3μ 9.8 × 5.3μ 15 1.85 var. minor
No. 258 9–11.9 × 4.5–6μ 10.6 × 5.1μ 30 2.07 var. minor
Type
No. 322 9.8–13.3 × 5.6–8.4μ 11.8 × 7.1μ 25 1.66 var. inflata
* E = Average length divided by width.
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