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TIIK I.ARCKR FrXGI 
LENZITES Fr. 
(After Harold Otlimar Lonz, a Oernian Botanigt.) 
“ Pilous eorky or eoriaeeous, dimidiate or resupinate, sessile. Gills coriaceous, 
often anastomosing at the base, homogeneous witli the substance of the t>'leus 
and not forming a distinct layer. h’lesh white or coloured. Spores white; 
ellii)tic.al, subglobose, cylindrical oi- oblong-elliptical; smooth. Cystidia sparse 
or none. Growing on wood, often iml)rica.te. ’ ’ — Kea. 
'Phe species form corky or corky-firm brackets or resupinate patches, resembling 
species of Polyponis, lrp<‘X, etc., in general ai)])earance but characterised by an 
evident gill-like arrangement of the hymenium. The gills are coriaceous, tirm, 
plate-liko and often radiating, and are connected bv cross branches so as to 
form elongate<l cells. In the brush forests of New Soutli AY ales and Queensland, 
Lenxites repmida forms large wliitisli brackets on dead wood, but tliis species 
<loea not occur in South Australia. A section of the genus grows on coniferous 
wood and it is of interest to find tliis section represented in Australia by a 
species, or more than one species, sapropliytic on CaUitris wood. 
[Photo, hy S. Tee. 
Figure 51 . — Lenzites striattn Swartz. (No. 348). On wood of 
Native Pine. 
KEY TO THE RECOEDED AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF LPNZITES 
GROWING ON CONIFEROUS WOOD. 
Yellow tawny, then date brown with yellow tawny edge, 
corky coriaceous, hard, strigosely tomentose. Gills 
yellowish becoming umber * Lensitei) sepiarki. 
Umber, tomentose becoming smooth, thin, comparatively 
soft. Gills yellowish red becoming glaucous .... * L. ahietina. 
Ferruginous, pubescent, soft, obsoletely zoned. Gills 
cinereous 348. L. striata. 
* Not yet recorded for South Australia. 
A Lenzites, or more than one species, is not uncommon on the dead wood of 
species of the Australian Coniferous genus CaUitris. Even in the same locality, 
the specimens may show considerable variation. It seems (|uite likely that only 
one species of Lenzites has to be considered thougii the late Dr. G. G. Lloyd has 
