Truffle-like fungi - basidiomycetes
The fruiting bodies of the basidiomycete truffle-like fungi are varied in form, sometimes stalked but mostly stalk-less and more-or-less spherical in shape . Internally the fruiting bodies are chambered, with the chambers of some species easy to ... [... more]
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Stereoid & paint (skin) fungi
However, the polypores have pores on the underside but the stereoid fungi have smooth, rather than pored, undersides. Remember that the pores in some of the polypores are very small (10 or more per millimetre). So to tell if you have a polypore ... [... more]
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Corticioid, stereoid and coral fungi
A funnel-shaped stereoid fungus such as Cymatoderma elegans var. lamellatum has the basidia on the underside of the sloping funnel area. Cymatoderma elegans var. lamellatum fungi have basidia lining the undersides of the fruiting bodies. The ... [... more]
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Cordyceps gunnii (Berk.) Berkeley
Description and distribution map for Cordyceps gunnii in Australia. Derivation: Literally 'Heart shaped head' named after the Tasmanian botanist R.C. Gunn. This is one of the 'vegetable capillars' produced by fungi parasitic on moth larvae, often ... [... more]
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Lepista nuda
Description and distribution map for Lepista nuda in Australia. This is one of the purple fungi. When young, its blue-lilac caps are bun- or cone-shaped with an inturned margin. As it ages, the cap becomes polished, purple brown and flattened ... [... more]
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Pseudohydnum gelatinosum (Scop. ex Fr.) Karst.
Description and distribution map for Pseudohydnum gelatinosum in Australia. This is one of the most conspicuous jelly fungi, often occurring in dense clusters on fallen wood. Unlike the other jelly fungi it has soft, tooth-like projections on the ... [... more]
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Banksiamyces macrocarpus
Description and distribution map for Banksiamyces macrocarpus in Australia. Banksiamyces is an interesting genus of cup fungi, which are found only from Banksia cones. B. macrocarpus occurs as small grey or black disks on Banksia spinulosa. The ... [... more]
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Species in the Australian neighbourhood
There are a number of fungi restricted to Australia's near neighbourhood - roughly the area bounded by Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. This may be due to the fact that, geologically speaking, these areas separated fairly recently or ... [... more]
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The FUNGIMAP project
Description and address of the FUNGIMAP project in Victoria, Australia. Knowledge about Australian fungi is quite patchy, with more unknown than known species. Even for the named species, knowledge about their distribution in Australia is fairly ... [... more]
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Species with an Australasian - South American distribution
A significant number of fungi found in Australian, while neither cosmopolitan nor pantropical, still show a wide distribution - being also found in South America, Asia or Africa. In some cases this reflects a Gondwanan origin, while in others a ... [... more]
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Deathcap Mushroom
The Deathcap Mushroom - Amanita phalloides, identification, emergency phone number, one of several illustrated pages introducing Australian fungi. You may reproduce the Deathcap information and photos, in any form and free of charge, for any ... [... more]
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Spore release and dispersal
In the TYPES OF FUNGI SECTION there were descriptions of various common types of fungal fruiting bodies and the opening page of WHAT IS A FUNGUS explained that the sole function of a fungal fruiting body was to produce and disperse spores. The ... [... more]
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