Hyaloriaceae
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This family consists of small to medium-sized, gelatinous, and somewhat translucent saprophytic fungi. With fruit-bodies borne on dead wood or corse twigy material. 
Genus: Pseudohydnum
Growing singly with short stalks or scattered gregariously in overlapping clusters, is gelatinous in texture with the lower surface mimicking a toothed fungus, of which two species occurs in New Zealand.
Pseudohydnum gelatinosumPseudohydnum orbiculare
Pseudohydnum totarae
 
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