Fungi

Types of fungal fruiting bodies - cup fungi

There are also what might best be described as "compound" cup fungi, which look like a number of cups stuck
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What's in this site and what isn't

The website introduces you to the basics of fungi that produce the striking (and easily visible) structures such as the
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The influences governing the distribution of species

Biogeography is the study of both the current distribution of living organisms and the reasons for those distributions.
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Coral & jelly fungi

This section contains macroscopic descriptions of the commonest types of fruiting bodies. The standard mushroom (stem,
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Truffle-like fungi - ascomycetes

In the ascomycete truffle-like fungi the asci may be spread throughout the interior of the fruiting body, embedded in
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Aboriginal use of fungi

An excellent source of information about this topic is the chapter by Arpad Kalotas in Fungi of Australia, Volume 1B
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Coral and jelly fungi

, usually found on soil but sometimes on rotting wood, may be simple fleshy clubs or intricately branched coral-like
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The cup fungi - and relatives

The most commonly seen larger ascomycete fruiting bodies are the ones known as the If you examined a cross-section of
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Jelly fungi & Wood-ears

The irregularly shaped jelly fungi (such as the species of Tremella) have the basidia in the convoluted surfaces of the
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Truffle-like fungi in Australia

Truffle-like fungi in Australia - one of several illustrated pages introducing Australian fungi. Terminology - truffle,
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Flask fungi

These fungi produce their spores in tiny, generally globose, chambers (called perithecia) which are mostly under a
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History of the study of Australian Fungi

The history of the study of fungi in Australia and the people involved. What follows is a highly abbreviated account of
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Truffle-like fungi - basidiomycetes

The fruiting bodies of the basidiomycete truffle-like fungi are varied in form, sometimes stalked but mostly stalk-less
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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.
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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
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