Heterobasidion

Notes

Forming annual to occasionally perennial fruiting bodies, represented by a single species in New Zealand. The dark upper surface contrasts with the cream lower poroid surface. Almost exclusively on Kauri.

 

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Heterobasidion araucariae
In New Zealand fruits only on kauri logs or on large fallen branches, very occasionally reported on Pinus taeda; in Australia on Araucaria. Fruiting bodies usually solitary, to 20 cm across, 17 cm radius, to 8 cm thick at base; upper sur