Family: Exidiaceae

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This family are small to medium size, gelatinous and somewhat translucent saprophytic fungi. With fruit-bodies borne on the ground, or on dead wood and some times grass.

Genus: Basidiodendron

Cushion-shaped found on dead wood with a soft translucent appearance.

Basidiodendron minutisporum

Genus: Pseudohydnum

Growing singularly with short stalks or scattered to gregariously in overlapping clusters. Been gelatinous in texture with the lower surface mimicking a toothed fungus, only one species in New Zealand.

Pseudohydnum gelatinosum

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