New Zealand, Wellington, Levin, Sandhills, Levin, Wellington.
-40.621944 175.286667 +-10000m.
40° 37' 19'' S 175° 17' 12'' E
lat/long = center of Levin
Seashore. buried in sand
Name on envelope "Disciseda purpurea" reflecting Coker and Couch's belief that this taxon was 'very near Disciseda' (p. 139 Gasteromycetes 1928).
Specimen citation: Mycol. Writ. 7(Letter 66): 1120 (1922). Current nomenclature as of May 2019: Abstoma purpureum (Lloyd) G. Cunn., Trans. Proc. N.Z. Inst. 57: 206 (1926).