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mattbarrett

Date

January 8, 2023 02:00 PM AEST

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mattbarrett

Date

January 8, 2023 03:15 PM AEST

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mattbarrett

Date

May 11, 2022 02:45 PM AEST

Description

Only a few plants seen along one creek, very rare in area

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What

Screw Palm (Pandanus spiralis)

Observer

mattbarrett

Date

May 11, 2022 02:59 PM AEST

Description

Only 1 cluster of adult plants. Some adult plants killed by fire. Two patches of seedlings / clones in creek. Species very scarce in region.

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mattbarrett

Date

March 23, 2022 11:14 AM AEST

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mattbarrett

Date

March 24, 2022 08:56 AM AEST

Description

Lignicolous, on very rotten log of Araucaria cunninghamii. Spores ovoid, yellow in KOH, c. 6x4 um. Clamps absent.

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mattbarrett

Date

March 2, 2022 11:04 AM AEST

Description

On cut logs of hoop pine

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mattbarrett

Date

March 2, 2022 11:19 AM AEST

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mattbarrett

Date

January 28, 2022 12:49 PM AEST

Description

On dead root on edge of cutting in rainforest. Brown merulioid Leucogyrophana overgrowing a white Perenniporia polypore

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mattbarrett

Date

January 28, 2007 10:28 AM AEST

Description

On standing trunk in rainforest

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mattbarrett

Date

September 4, 2021 09:20 AM AEST

Description

Uploaded on behalf of the collector, Kym Brennan

Small, fragile, 10cm tall. In leaf mould in heavy shade, lowland spring-fed monsoon forest, on drier part towards margin.

This is a normal gilled mushroom that has a very thin cap flesh, which splits radially (between the gills). Further drying lifts and twists the gill-segments into the flower shape in the image. The type specimen from Vanauatu had the same form on all fruitbodies, but the author was unsure whether this was an oddity, or the normal condition. The find of this Australian specimen shows that it is the norm, but it would be great to find young fruitbodies to understand exactly of the final form develops – at what point in development does it depart from a mushroom shape?

The species is Hausknechtia floriformis, a monotypic genus only described in 2020, with a single species described (by Anton Hausknecht) in 2003, previously only known from Vanuatu. I have been on the lookout for it, great to know it occurs in Australia too.

A link to the genus description: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11557-020-01606-3

A link to the original species description: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjwh767wJD0AhWQXisKHV56AnkQFnoECAgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zobodat.at%2Fpdf%2FOestZPilz_12_0031-0040.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2rG4jlSDVwwBUmwAkpRYGM

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mattbarrett

Date

January 6, 2021 10:38 AM AEST

Description

Flesh immediately red-brown, darkening further. Flesh soft-rubbery-leathery, depressible but almost impossible to cut unless knife is extremely sharp. Spores cylindric, thick-walled. Dimitic with skeletal hyphae dominant.

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What

Brittlegills (Genus Russula)

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mattbarrett

Date

January 6, 2021 10:07 AM AEST

Description

In small traffic island containing 3 Backhousia citriodora only - with Russula and Amanita clusters - good evidence this Backhousia is ectomycorrhizal

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mattbarrett

Date

December 27, 2020 12:18 PM AEST

Description

Climacodon dubitativus (=C. efflorescens)
Appears to bind soil below the fruitbody
Found by Antony Roth.
Unclear whether introduced or native in this location

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What

Craypot Stinkhorn (Colus pusillus)

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mattbarrett

Date

December 29, 2020 10:14 AM AEST

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mattbarrett

Date

January 3, 2021 11:50 AM AEST

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What

Funnel Woodcap (Lentinus sajor-caju)

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mattbarrett

Date

January 2, 2021 05:31 PM AEST

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What

Latte Bracket (Trametes lactinea)

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mattbarrett

Date

July 16, 2020 11:40 AM AEST

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mattbarrett

Date

August 8, 2020 01:21 PM AEST

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mattbarrett

Date

June 14, 2020 04:41 PM AEST

Description

Strictly pileate, narrowly attached, annual. Pileus tomentose. Hymenium lamellate, sub-hydnoid in places. Hymenal setae present, dark brown, acute, straight, hyphidia present, abundant, apparently roughened, not branched, not strongly knobbly. Cortex absent, dark line absent in context.
The radially lamellate hymenium is very unusual for Hymenochaete (including Cyclomyces).

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mattbarrett

Date

June 14, 2020 04:41 PM AEST

Description

Laterally stipitate. Spores globose, smooth, colourless, thick-walled, c. 5 um diam. Dimitic (or pseudo-dimitic), clamps absent. Pores c. 5 per mm, lavender, bruising rusty orange then smoky grey, eventually dark grey-blue. Pileus cream, in very old fruitbodies dark brown, glabrous, granular-tuberculate on stipe and central part. Similar to Physisporinus lavendulus, but pores larger and laterally stipitate.

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mattbarrett

Date

April 25, 2020 12:06 PM AEST

Description

Gregarious puffball, with copious rhizomorphs. Spores yellowish at maturity, yellow in KOH, round to ovoid, echinulate. Gleba with paracapillitium of hyaline clamped hyphae.

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mattbarrett

Date

March 29, 2020 01:45 PM AEST

Description

Dimitic with skeletal hyphae. Spores amyloid, minutely ornamented, oval. ITS sequence is divergent from any previously sequenced species, but is at least close to Wrightoporiopsis. Morphologically similar to Wrightoporiopsis irregularis, sharing the irregularly hydnoid hymenium, but ITS sequence is very divergent from W. irregularis (and all other Wrightoporiopsis sequences on GenBank).

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mattbarrett

Date

May 1, 2019 09:02 AM AEST

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Observer

mattbarrett

Date

December 28, 2019 11:01 AM AEST

Description

Polypore attached by short lateral stipe. Identity confirmed as close to Pseudofavolus cucculatus by ITS sequence; although matching one Chinese sequence of P. cucullatus, is only 93% to many others, suggesting P. cucullatus might be a species complex.

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mattbarrett

Date

December 28, 2019 11:54 AM AEST

Description

Laterally stipitate polypore. Identity confirmed by ITS sequence.

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mattbarrett

Date

December 21, 2019 01:45 PM AEST

Description

Pileus upper surface gelatinised, minutely white hairy. Pores with orange setae only visible microscopically. This is a young form of Echinochaete maximipora resembling Favolus spathulatus, but its identity as Echinochaete maximipora confirmed microscopically and with ITS sequences. Older fruitbodies with more typical orange-rusty-setose caps were present in the same location - see separate obervation.

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mattbarrett

Date

December 21, 2019 02:08 PM AEST

Description

Pileus and pores scurfy-orange from orange, branched setae.

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mattbarrett

Date

April 19, 2020 12:08 PM AEST

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What

Fringed Goblet (Cookeina insititia)

Observer

mattbarrett

Date

March 1, 2020 04:29 PM AEST

Description

Annual. Stipitate-cupulate, on wood. Cup erect, 5-13 x 5-11 mm, pale yellow-brown to dark brown externally, internally fawn-cream to very pale brown, margin with moderately-dense pale hairs 1.0-2.0 mm long, tending to be arranged in linearly-aligned fasicles, each fascicle adhering and tending to create triangular structures; outer surface mostly smooth but some hairs present, especially toward the apex of the cup. Stipe cylindrical, 6-15 x 1.2 mm, pale yellowish brown to dark brown, minutely papillose and with occasional hairs, especially near the apex. Flesh of cup solid, thin, 0.5-0.7 mm thick, white to cream, with a dark brown layer below the outer surface; under LM in section the layer below excipulum gelatinised (not visible with hand lens). Asci hyaline, long, thick-walled, asymmetrically operculate near apex, IKI-. Paraphyses thin, hyaline, thin-walled, with many septa especially near apex, IKI-. Ascospores hyaline, long fusiform, 49x10 um, thick-walled, smooth, not obviously striate or ornamented at 400X, IKI-, with many oil drops sometimes coalesced when younger. On dead stick almost completely buried, initially appearing on leaf litter until unearthed.

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