Family: Sclerodermataceae

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These fungi are commonly known as Earth-balls which have a yellow to brown thick tough peridium (outer lay). Which in closes a powdery gleba without capillitium which is purple when immature with sculptured spores.

Genus: Scleroderma

Scleroderma radicans

Scleroderma flavidum f. macrospora

Scleroderma verrucosum

Scleroderma sp.

Genus: Pisolithus

This ectomycorrhizal fungus that forms an assositation with tea tree is the only species found in New Zealand.

Pisolithus tinctorius

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