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Habitat: Atlantic Paranaense forest

Substrate: on living bamboo (Chusquea sp.?)

Collector: D. Newman

Collection #: CIAR021

Collected during the 2015 “Curso de Identificación de Macrohongos Degradadores de Madera,” lead by Dr. Gerardo Robledo, Dr. Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, Dr. Orlando Fabián Popoff Montañez and Nicolás Niveiro.

A group of 3 of these mushrooms were emerging from the dune sand. They were located within a sparse stand of a legume (Glycyrrhiza astragalina). A few dune grasses were also mixed into this legume vegetation. The microsite was a flat area at the base of a dune.