Microporus Xanthopus
Common Name: Microporus xanthopus is a tropical polypore. The distinctive, widely flared fruiting bodies are attractively zoned on the inner surface, while the outer, fertile surface is covered with minute pores. The specific name xanthopus, ... [... more]
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Amanita Muscaria
Reproduced by permission Probably the most easily recognisable of all mushrooms, the fly agaric is an introduced fungus which forms a mutually beneficial relationship with the roots of many trees, both native and introduced. Contrary to popular ... [... more]
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Agaricus Xanthodermus
Reproduced by permission Just like the Field Mushroom or cultivated Button Mushroom, but distinguished by the yellow stain, the squarer cap, the double ring, and the chemical odour. Typically found in parks, gardens and lawns. Poisonous. Agaricus ... [... more]
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Leucopaxillus Lilacinus
Common Name: None Leucopaxillus lilacinus is a robust agaric with convex to uplifted cap to 10cm diam.; cap and stem purple; gills crowded, decurrent, white, with many lamellulae (short gills); spore print white. Could be confused with purple ... [... more]
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Stereum Ostrea
Common Name: None Thelephore with large brackets (cap to 14 cm deep), often massed on fallen logs, with zoned cap and smooth ochre yellow underside. Compare to S. hirsutum group. Map based on Fungimap records to March 2000 [... more]
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Marasmius Elegans
Common Name: None Marasmius elegans (= Collybia elegans). Tough agaric with orange brown cap; white gills and stem white above grading to dark below. Map based on Fungimap records to March 2000 [... more]
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Astraeus Hygrometricus
20-35 mm diam. when closed, subglobose or flattened at apex, dull greyish white to pale brown, becoming smooth. Expanded fruit-body 50-90 mm across, the outer layer splitting more than halfway into 7-13 rays, strongly hygroscopic (rays arched ... [... more]
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Mycena Interrupta
Pileus/cap: about 1cm diameter. Beautiful blue caps: dark, steely blue in young specimens, becoming paler with a blue centre, fading to pale grey-blue when old. Globular buttons when young becoming flatly convex. Viscid when wet., Striate. ... [... more]
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Microporus Affinis
Common Name: None Microporus affinis (= M. flabelliformis) is a polypore with very fine pores (more than 6 per mm); stem well-developed and lateral (attached to side of cap), stem base expanded to form disc at point of attachment. On wood in ... [... more]
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Mycena Austrororida
Common Name: Mycena austrororida is a small, translucent, white species, readily recognised by the glutinous coating on the stems and fine brown dots on the surface of the caps. The species is found on twigs and branches in wet forests and ... [... more]
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Dictyophora Indusiata
Up to 180 mm tall, white and spongy with a conical cap covered in a slimy, spore bearing mass with the odour of rotting flesh. The egg remains at the base of the receptacle as a volva. Between the cap and the stem falls a delicate, lacy, white ... [... more]
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Cyptotrama Aspratum
1-5cm diameter, in Australia, usually 1-3cm . Lemon yellow to orange, bristling with conical warts of paler colour. These warts consist of tiny spines sticking together at the tips. Pileus is knob-like at first, then flattening and sometimes ... [... more]
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