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. Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 1 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Mycena lampadis Luminous Mushroom Bioluminescencet Basidiomycota Mushroom orange Gilled Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 2 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Mushroom white-brown Gilled Basidiomycota Mushroom – white-pink/grey Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 3 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Mushroom – white-brown patchy Gilled Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 4 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Mushroom – brown Gilled Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 5 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Mushroom – orange/brown Gilled Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 6 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Bracket – white Gilled Basidiomycota Funnel – white Gilled Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 7 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Coral Fungi Basidiomycota Coral White Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 8 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Gilled Fungi – Simple Gills Basidiomycota Mycena sp Simple Gills Basidiomycota Mushroom grey-white Simple Gills Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 9 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Mushroom red Simple Gills Basidiomycota Mushroom purple Simple Gills Tiny purple mushrooms growing through a Craypot fungi. Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 10 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Mushroom orange Simple Gills Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 11 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Fleshy Pore Fungi Basidiomycota Fleshy Pore Fungi Basidiomycota Fleshy Pore Fungi Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 12 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Yellow Fleshy Pore Fungi Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 13 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Polypore (Word Decay) Basidiomycota Polypore (Word Decay) Orange Bracket Basidiomycota Orange Polypore (Word Decay) Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 14 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Polypore (Word Decay) Basidiomycota Polypore (Word Decay) Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 15 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Polypore (Word Decay) Basidiomycota Polypore (Word Decay) Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 16 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Stinkhorn Fungi Phallaceae Basidiomycota Aseroe rubra Starfish Fungi Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 17 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Phallaceae Basidiomycota Colus pusillus Craypot Stinkhorn 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. Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 18 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi 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 Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 19 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi 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. Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 20 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Puffballs & Allies Basidiomycota ? Puffball Basidiomycota Puffball Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 21 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Basidiomycota Geastrum triplex Earth Star Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 22 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Mold Physaraceae Fuligo septica Dog Vomit Slime Mold Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 23 of 24 Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve – Fungi Lichen Cladoniaceae Cladonia floerkeana Photos: Chris Bamberry Fungi - ver 1.1 Page 24 of 24 .