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 Phallus multicolor Stinkhorn
Similar to Phallus indusiatus 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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