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Volvariella speciosa (Fr. :Fr.) Singer Lilloa 22: 401 (1951)

Fungimap — 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…

Vibrissea dura

Fungimap — 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…

Uromyces politus

Fungimap — Description and distribution map for Uromyces politus in Australia. This rust has an aecial (cluster cup) stage which forms masses of orange cylinders (to 1.5 mm high) with a white, toothed margin. On Muehlenbeckia. RARE. It seemed a good idea to ...More…

Underwoodia beatonii

Fungimap — Description and distribution map for Underwoodia beatonii in Australia. Club fungus with cylindrical fruit body up to 70 mm high, tapered to pointed apex; greyish brown above, cream below; internally hollow. Often under Melaleuca. RARE.More…

Tubaria rufofulva

Fungimap — Description and distribution map for Tubaria rufofulva in Australia. Agaric with maroon (brownish red) fruit body; cap with translucent striae when wet, hygrophanous, but soon drying to paler red brown; stem with membranous ring; on wood. Could ...More…

Tremella mesenterica Retz. ex Fr.

Fungimap — 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…

Tremella fuciformis

Fungimap — Description and distribution map for Tremella fuciformis in Australia. A mass of white, translucent gelatinous fungal material. It may form convoluted or lobed folds. As it dries, it shrinks to almost nothing. It is usually 3 - 15cm across. The ...More…

Stereum ostrea

Fungimap — Description and distribution map for Stereum ostrea in Australia. 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.More…

Stereum hirsutum group

Fungimap — Description and distribution map for Stereum hirsutum group in Australia. (including S. complicatum). Thelephore with massed brackets (cap to 3.5 cm deep), hairy above, ochre or brown, sometimes zoned; margin sometimes yellow, often frilly; ...More…

Schizostoma laceratum

Fungimap — 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…

Schizophyllum commune Fr. :Fr. Syst. Mycol. 1: 330 (1821)

Fungimap — 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…

Rozites symeae

Fungimap — Description and distribution map for Rozites symeae in Australia. Rozites symeae, an agaric with cap initially purple brown and glutinous, with small white scales, then brown; stem with membranous ring; gills and spore print brown. RARE.More…