Further information
Fungi - references & bibliography, one of several illustrated pages introducing Australian fungi. You’ll find many specific references scattered through the various sections of this website. Some of those references are also listed here, but most ... [... more]
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Piptoporus australiensis
Description and distribution map for Piptoporus australiensis in Australia. Piptoporus australiensis is usually called Curry Punk because of its persistent curry-like odour, even when old and dry. In contrast to other spongy polypores, this ... [... more]
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Podaxis pistillaris (L. :Pers.)Fr. Syst. Mycol. 3: 63 (1829)
Description and distribution map for Podaxis pistillaris in Australia. Podaxis pistillaris is a very distinctive relative of the puffballs. It occurs in deserts and semi-deserts of Australia and other countries. It grows to 15 cm high and has a ... [... more]
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Colus hirudinosus group
Description and distribution map for Colus hirudinosus group in Australia. The Colus hirudinosus group (includes C. pusillus). A stinkhorn with horizontally wrinkled, red arms united at apex, which can form a lattice. Anthurus archeri has arms ... [... more]
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Marasmius elegans
Description and distribution map for Marasmius elegans in Australia. Marasmius elegans (= Collybia elegans). Tough agaric with orange brown cap; white gills and stem white above grading to dark below. [... more]
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Omphalina chromacea
Description and distribution map for Omphalina chromacea in Australia. Chrome yellow to orange, decurrent, not crowded. Often forked. Edges rather thick. Distant. Up to 2cm long. Slender, widening at top. Smooth. Same colour as pileus. No volva ... [... more]
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Leotia lubrica
Description and distribution map for Leotia lubrica in Australia. Leotia lubrica is a cosmopolitan ascomycete. It grows singly or in small colonies amongst leaf litter on forest floors. The thick stems are very slimy because of a layer of ... [... more]
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Vibrissea dura
Description and distribution map for Vibrissea dura in Australia. Club fungus to 30 mm high, with small (to 7 mm diam.) convex, brown or yellowish heads on pale stalks; slimy when fresh. On wood, in wet areas. RARE. Compare Chlorovibrissea, which ... [... more]
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Amanita phalloides (Vaill. : Fr.)Link Handbuch 3: 272 (1833)
Description and distribution map for Amanita phalloides in Australia. Amanita phalloides is an introduced agaric found under oak, and is ; cap greenish; stem white with ring initially and ample volva (cup at base). RARE. [... more]
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Anthurus archeri (Berk.) Fischer
Description and distribution map for Anthurus archeri in Australia. This distinctive red fungus is most often found in alpine and sub alpine areas, and occasionally in garden beds mulched with wood shavings or chips. When mature, it gives off a ... [... more]
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Dermocybe splendida
Description and distribution map for Dermocybe splendida in Australia. Dermocybe splendida. Robust agaric with intense orange-red gills; stipe yellow below, with yellow mycelium, orange-red above; cap red to brown; spore print brown. Up to 55mm ... [... more]
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Gasteromycetes
In all of the other basidiomycetes the basidia are persistent. Even by the time a mushroom has largely rotted away you can usually still find basidia on the gills. There are several common groups of basidiomycetes where the mature fruiting body ... [... more]
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