Caps to 70 mm across with foremost specimen standing 220 mm tall. Exposed spores on pilei disperse like cinnamon when touched or blown. Scaly or woody light-brown stems. Group of 5 specimens found growing in leaf litter beneath eastern outer canopy of Eucalyptus camaldulensis (River Red Gum).

This damsel does not have an ante-humeral stripe, but I think it is a female Five-spot Threadtail due to the description referring to the pronotum in the field guide, quote "Front part of posterior lobe of female pronotum broad with apex bluntly rounded, deeply concave above (fig.C), margins very strongly convex in lateral view (fig.D)". In these images a rounded forward-pointing "hook" may be what the text is referring to.

The underside appears to indicate these very pretty orbweavers are yet another species in the fuliginata group.
The yellow patches and the shape of the scape are generally indicative of this group. The last pic of a close up of her scape shows similar characteristics to that described and diagrammed in THE SPIDER FAUNA (ARANEIDA) OF DECIDUOUS ORCHARDS IN THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY DONDALE 1966

However the dorsal pattern wasnt quite like the other fuliganata.

I remembered seeing a paper of a species that had patches like fuliginata but according to the description were white in colour.

Description of a new orb-weaving spider species representing the first record of Novaranea in Australia (Araneae: Araneidae: Araneinae)
Framenau 2011.

But I think only preserved specimens were examined, so the colour could have bleached.

Checking that paper again it does appear that the scape is even a better match as is the dorsal patterning.

The examined specimens also included some from the Otways.

Thank you again Reiner for introducing me to these spiders. @reiner