Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi

Compiled by: Michael Fox http://megoutlook.wordpress.com/flora-fauna/ © 2014-17 Creative Commons – free use with attribution to Mt Gravatt Environment Group

Gilled Fungi

Basidiomycota Armillaria luteobubalina

Common in sclerophyll forests – very active parasite spreading underground from infected trees by dark string like rhizomorphs

Basidiomycota Russula persanguinea

Simple Gills Fleshy texture

Mycorrhizal species (symbiotic with plant roots) found in eucalypt forests.

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Basidiomycota Mycena lampadis Luminous Mushroom

Bioluminescencet

Basidiomycota

Mushroom orange Gilled

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Basidiomycota

Mushroom white-brown Gilled

Basidiomycota

Mushroom – white-pink/grey

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Basidiomycota

Mushroom – white-brown patchy Gilled

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Basidiomycota

Mushroom – brown Gilled

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Basidiomycota

Mushroom – orange/brown Gilled

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Basidiomycota

Bracket – white Gilled

Basidiomycota

Funnel – white Gilled

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Coral Fungi

Basidiomycota

Coral White

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Gilled Fungi – Simple Gills

Basidiomycota Mycena sp

Simple Gills

Basidiomycota

Mushroom grey-white Simple Gills

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Basidiomycota

Mushroom red Simple Gills

Basidiomycota

Mushroom purple Simple Gills

Tiny purple mushrooms growing through a Craypot fungi.

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Basidiomycota

Mushroom orange Simple Gills

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Fleshy Pore Fungi

Basidiomycota

Fleshy Pore Fungi

Basidiomycota

Fleshy Pore Fungi

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Basidiomycota

Yellow Fleshy Pore Fungi

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Polypore (Word Decay)

Basidiomycota

Polypore (Word Decay) Orange Bracket

Basidiomycota

Orange Polypore (Word Decay)

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Basidiomycota

Polypore (Word Decay)

Basidiomycota

Polypore (Word Decay)

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Basidiomycota

Polypore (Word Decay)

Basidiomycota

Polypore (Word Decay)

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Stinkhorn Fungi

Phallaceae Basidiomycota Aseroe rubra Starfish Fungi

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Basidiomycetes Gasteromycetes Stinkhorns

Reddish arms form basket.

Fungi bursts from a cluster of gelatinous eggs.

Broken arm shows hollow structure and brown faeces/rotten meat smelling coating that attracts flies to disperse spores.

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Phallaceae Basidiomycota multicolor Stinkhorn

Similar to which has a white/cream indusium: netlike skirt not the coloured, off- white, yellow or orange skirt of multicolor

Phallaceae Basidiomycota Phallus rubicundus Red Stinkhorn

Basidiomycetes Gasteromycetes Stinkhorns

Foul smell like sewage – attracts flies and attractive to dogs

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Bird’s Nest Fungi Nidulariaceae Cyathus novaezelandiae Bird’s Nest Fungi

Live on rotting wood and dung

‘Eggs’ or peridioles in base are splashed out by raindrops.

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Puffballs & Allies

Basidiomycota ? Puffball

Basidiomycota

Puffball

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Basidiomycota Geastrum triplex Earth Star

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Mold

Physaraceae Fuligo septica Dog Vomit Slime Mold

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Lichen

Cladoniaceae Cladonia floerkeana

Photos: Chris Bamberry

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