Just over a year ago we had a record of a Clathrus from Auckland that started an interesting discussion ... http://inaturalist.nz/observations/1554070 We collectively decided there might be a new species in Auckland, common on wood chips, that was neither Aseroe rubra or Clathrus archeri, but had features of both. Specifically it has a long stalk and bifid arms like Aseroe, but big like Clathrus and with the gleba along the arms rather than the centre, also like Clathrus. In some collections the tips of the arms are fused, even appearing somewhat clathrate like Clathrus ruber. Recently we sequenced a number of these Auckland collections, collected by the late Ross Beever together with typical Aseroe rubra and typical Clathrus archeri. This record is the typical Clathrus archeri. The sequences indicate the Auckland species is Clathrus archeri, as Tom May originally suggested, and it is very variable (if we trust the sequences to indicate species). The only consistent difference is the position of the gleba which is central in Asero rubra and not in the middle in Clathrus archeri. The collection photographed here has more or less the same ITS /LSU/ATP6 sequence as all these quite different looking Auckland collections ... https://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz/Specimen/PDD%20100846 https://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz/Specimen/PDD%20100847 https://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz/Specimen/PDD%20100630 https://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz/Specimen/PDD%20100848 I'll trust the sequence data and call all these C. archeri. The data we have now suggests Aseroe rubra may have an identity issue, with some sequence variability in what looks like typical Aseroe rubra.