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Cookeina
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Deep, thin-fleshed cups up to about 2 cm across, translucent-pinkish in colour. Saprobic on wood, which is often very hard and blackened on the surface.
There is a single New Zealand species, found also in Australia and tropical Asia.
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Cookeina colensoi
Common, always on wood, the wood often very hard and blackened on the surface.