Tremella mesenterica Retz. ex Fr.
Description and distribution map for Tremella mesenterica in Australia. Tremella mesenterica grows mainly on dead wood and occasionally living trees, mainly Banksia species. The convoluted form is distinctive, with colour ranging from yellow to ... [... more]
Fungimap |
Schizostoma laceratum
Description and distribution map for Schizostoma laceratum in Australia. 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 ... [... more]
Fungimap |
Volvariella speciosa (Fr. :Fr.) Singer Lilloa 22: 401 (1951)
Description and distribution map for Volvariella speciosa in Australia. Whitish, becoming light brownish-pink. Free from stipe. Crowded. White. Like a loose sack, with a torn margin, around base of stem. Disintegrating with age. Bougher, N & ... [... more]
Fungimap |
Boletellus obscurecoccineus
Description and distribution map for Boletellus obscurecoccineus in Australia. Boletellus obscurecoccineus is unusually elegant for a bolete, most species being rather robust and some distinctly obese. Although conspicuous because of its ... [... more]
Fungimap |
Mycena nargan Grgurinovich Austral. Syst. Bot. 8: 531 (1995)
Description and distribution map for Mycena nargan in Australia. Mycena nargan is a small agaric with very dark blackish brown cap (to 18 mm diam.), spotted with small white scales; stem with white scales at base. Gregarious, on wood. RARE. Up to ... [... more]
Fungimap |
Polyporus hartmannii
Description and distribution map for Polyporus hartmannii in Australia. Polyporus hartmannii is a stalked polypore, with a velvety, reddish-brown cap to 15 cm diarn., pores crowded, pale yellow. At base of tree trunks arising from buried ... [... more]
Fungimap |
Schizophyllum commune Fr. :Fr. Syst. Mycol. 1: 330 (1821)
Description and distribution map for Schizophyllum commune in Australia. Radiate from point of attachment to substrate. White, grey, pinkish-beige. Gills appear to be split or grooved and curl back in dry weather. Lateral or absent, often merely ... [... more]
Fungimap |
Mucronella pendula
Description and distribution map for Mucronella pendula in Australia. 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 ... [... more]
Fungimap |
Rozites metallica
Description and distribution map for Rozites metallica in Australia. Rozites metallica, an agaric with glutinous (very slimy) blue grey cap, brown with age, at first with small white scales; gills and spore print brown; stipe white with ... [... more]
Fungimap |
Calostoma fuhreri
Description and distribution map for Calostoma fuhreri in Australia. Calostoma fuhreri, a puffball with short gelatinous stem (to 20 mm long) and globose mesoperidium (which contains the spore sac) up to 8 mm diam., mouth red. Outer layer not ... [... more]
Fungimap |
Battarraea stevenii (Lib.)Fr. Syst. Mycol. 3: 7 (1829)
Description and distribution map for Battarraea stevenii in Australia. This is a species of the desert country which often comes up after rain. Up to 60mm dia. and 20-30mm high, pulvinate or depressed globose, at the disc-like apex of the stipe; ... [... more]
Fungimap |
Cordyceps hawkesii
Description and distribution map for Cordyceps hawkesii in Australia. Another vegetable caterpillar, less often seen than the more common C. gunnii. The fruiting body is divided into a fertile head and a sterile stalk. The club shaped, minutely ... [... more]
Fungimap |
