Gallacea

Notes

A truffle-like fungus characterised by the fruiting body having a gelatinous internal columella, minute anastomosing canals lined by spore-bearing cells and smooth, elliptical spores.
The three New Zealand species are all endemic, and ectomycorrhizal with beech and tea-tree.
Distinguished from Hysterangium because of the tendency for large schizogenous cavities to develop in the internal tissue, and the absence of an utricle (a loose outer covering) from the spores.

 

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Gallacea scleroderma
Partly buried in soil and litter. Some of the fruiting bodies cut open to show the brown internal tissue of highly distorted and compressed gills.