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Recent stamp issues of fungi from New Zealand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2004

MAURICE. O. MOSS  and
DAVID N. PEGLER
MAURICE. O. MOSS
Affiliation:
School of Biomedical & Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH
DAVID N. PEGLER
Affiliation:
c/o Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB
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A magnificent set of fungal stamps was issued in New Zealand as a miniature sheet (Fig 1) and as individual stamps on 6th March 2002. They illustrate, with six colourful examples, some of the diversity of the basidiomycetes. These are the first stamps about fungi to be issued in New Zealand, although a set of health stamps issued in 1977 showed drawings of children studying a bird, a frog and a butterfly with a few fruit bodies of fly agarics in the foreground. In 1988, the 40c value of a set of stamps depicting native birds shows a brown kiwi apparently looking at some small fungal fruitbodies. These stamps are illustrated and described in McKenzie (1997). Details of the species depicted in this recent set are given below.

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Mycologist , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , November 2003 , pp. 176 - 178
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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