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Fungi:> Basidiomycota:> Basidiomycetes:> Agaricales:> Tricholomataceae:> Bertrandia, Camarophyllus, Gliophorus, Humidicutis, Insiticia, Hygrocybe, Hygrophorus, Collopus, Conchomyces, Crinipellis, Clitocybe, Cystoderma, Mycena, Mycenula, Rickenella, Tricholoma, Tricholomopsis, Xeromphalina.
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This is the largest family of the agaricales, which is defined mainly by not having any characters which distinguish them from other families.
 
Genus: Conchomyces  
Species: Conchomyces bursiformis
More imagesConchomyces bursiformis
Common Name: None
Found: Native forest
Substrate: Decaying wood
Spore: White
Height: 25 mm
Width: 60 mm
Season: Autumn
Edible: No
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Genus: Crinipellis  
Species: Crinipellis procera Stevenson
Grows from sticks on the forest floor. It has a twisted, horse hair like stem covered with fine velvet.
  Crinipellis procera
Common Name: Horsehair Fungus
Found: Mixed Forest
Substrate: Small twigs
Spore: White
Height: 100 mm
Width: 20 mm
Season: Autumn
Edible: No
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Species: Crinipellis filiformis G. Stev.
  Crinipellis procera
Common Name: None
Found: Broadleaved Forest
Substrate: Fallen leaves
Spore: White
Height: 25 mm
Width: 3 mm
Season: Autumn
Edible: No
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Genus: Clitocybe  
The members of this genus with white spores, no volva nor annulus, the gills with thin edges not notched on the edge near the stem, and generally decurrent.
 
Species: Clitocybe gigantea More imagesClitocybe gigantea
Common Name: Giant Clitocybe
Found: Red wood forest
Substrate: Ground litter
Spore: White
Height: 150 mm
Width: 300 mm
Season: Autumn
Edible: ?
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Genus: Cystoderma  
Species: Cystoderma clastotrichum More imagesCystoderma species
Common Name: None
Found: Podocarp Forest
Substrate: Wood
Spore: White
Height: 80 mm
Width: 45 mm
Season: Autumn
Edible: No
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Genus: Omphalina  
Species: Omphalina foetida More imagesOmphalina foetida
Common Name: None
Found: Nothofagus Forests
Substrate: Wood
Spore: White
Height: 60 mm
Width: 40 mm
Season: Autumn
Edible: No
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Genus: Rickenella  
Species: Rickenella fibula (Bull.) Raithelh. More imagesRickenella fibula
Common Name: Orange mosscap
Found: Mossy Grasslands
Substrate: Ground
Spore: White
Height: 7-40 mm
Width: 3-10 mm
Season: Autumn
Edible: No
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Genus: Tricholomopsis  
Species: Tricholomopsis rutilans (Fr.) Sing.
An introduced species that grows on dead pine trees. The cap appears to change colour from a maroon-purple to brown as the fungus ages.
More imagesTricholomopsis rutilans
Common Name: Plums & Custard
Found:
Pine Forest
Substrate: Pine Trees stumps
Spore: White
Height: 120 mm
Width: 60 mm
Season: ?
Edible: No
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Species: Tricholomopsis ornaticeps
Very simlar to above but found in native forest
More imagesTricholomopsis ornaticeps
Common Name: None
Found:
Podocarp Forest
Substrate: Dead wood
Spore: White
Height: 120 mm
Width: 100 mm
Season: Autum
Edible: No
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Genus: Xeromphalina  
Species: Xeromphalina tenuipes (Schw.) A. H. Smith
More imagesXeromphalina tenuipes
Common Name: None
Found:
Podocarp Forest
Substrate: Wood
Spore: White
Height: 120 mm
Width: 60 mm
Season: ?
Edible: No
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