Fistulina Hepatica
Common Name: Beefsteak Fungus The Beefsteak Fungus is aptly named. It resembles a piece of meat when fresh, and exudes a reddish liquid when cut. It is often seen growing from wounds on dead trees, and is somewhat slippery when wet. Up to 250mm ... [... more]
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Schizostoma Laceratum
Common Name: None Stalked puffball with globose peridium (up to 25 mm diam.), dehiscing not by stoma (mouth) but by irregular fissuring from apex downwards, uncovering spore mass; stem to 3mm wide and 3 cm long (possibly longer). In deserts. ... [... more]
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Anthracophyllum Archeri
Reproduced by permission Anthracophyllum archeri. Bright reddish orange agaric with stem short and lateral or absent; gills widely spaced. Found growing on dead wood, such as twigs, bracken, creepers and bark in great numbers in moist forest, but ... [... more]
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Amanita Chlorophylla
This is an interesting species because of the distinctly green lamellae and the clearly greenish spore print. It also is characterised by a fragile annulus, no volva, elongate spores, narrow marginal cells and velar remains a mixture of inflated ... [... more]
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Ascocoryne Sarcoides
Reproduced by permission This jelly-like fungus is found as small pinkish to pale violet discs or cushions, sometimes with a short stalk, growing in clusters on rotting rotting branches or trunks lying on the ground, as well as on the stumps of ... [... more]
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Gymnopilus Pampeanus
6.5-15cm diameter. Golden, tawny brown. Fibrillose with small, scaly patches. Convex becoming flattened. Margin inturned, often irregular when old. Flesh: thick, light tan. 4-11cm. Same colour as pileus. Stout, often curved and swollen at base. ... [... more]
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Craterellus Cornucopioides
Common Name: None Craterellus cornucopioides. Chantarelle with deeply funnel-shaped fruit body, inner surface granular, blackish-brown, outer surface blue-grey. Seems restricted to Cool Temperate Rainforest. RARE. Craterellus cornucopioides (L. ... [... more]
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Armillaria Luteobubalina
Reproduced by permission Armillaria luteobubalina is a species common to sclerophyll forests. The size is variable, with larger specimens forming clumps of a few individuals, while large colonies of small individuals may cover entire tree stumps. ... [... more]
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Aseroe Rubra
Reproduced by permission Literally: disgusting, red. (Rubra (L.) - red.) Starfish fungus; sea anemone fungus. This fungus is like a large, land, sea anemone with outstretched red tentacles and an evil-smelling brown-green slime in the centre. The ... [... more]
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Mucronella Pendula
Common Name: Coral Fungus Mucronella pendula is a small and delivate pendulous member of the Coral Fungus family. Colonies of these stalked 'stalactites', from 1 to 3 cm. long, may be found on the lower surfaces and in hollows of wet, rotting ... [... more]
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Chlorovibrissea Bicolor
Common Name: This is a rare ascomycete found in fern gullies on wood and the remains of roots which are very wet or under water. The fruiting bodies are divided into a bright yellow, rounded, fertile head and a darker sterile stalk, the height of ... [... more]
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Flabellophora Superposita
Common Name: None Flabellophora superposita. Stalked polypore to 18 cm tall, with several laterally attached caps arising from common stem. Buried pseudosclerotium at stem base. RARE. Map based on Fungimap records to March 2000 [... more]
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