What
Genus GymnopusObserver
pat-leonardPlace
Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden, 51 Palm Creek Rd, Tanawha QLD 4554, Australia (Google, OSM)Description
Cap: convex, sometimes shallowly umbonatate in the centre; 25 - 80 mm diameter; glabrous, slightly greasy; sulcate striate; light brown, brownish orange (7C4, 7D4), darker brown in the center on some fruiting bodies; margin irregular.
Stipe: cylindrical; 60 - 80 × 4 - 5 mm; glabrous; pale buff with prominent striations that are concolorous with the cap; gro.
Gills: adnexed; moderately crowded; pale buff and a very small paler ring where they join the stipe; with lamellulae in two series.
Flesh: thin; very tough, buff.
Spore print: cream.
Spores: ellipsoid; 10 - 12 × 4 - 5.5 µm; with a prominent oil drop.
Basidia: clavate; 15 - 22 × 6 - 8 µm; four spored.
Cheilocystidia: broadly clavate, capitate, some with two lateral or terminal projections; 50 - 85 × 10 - 18 µm
Pleurocystidia: clavate to fusoid; 28 - 35 × 7 - 9 µm; with dark granular elements on the surface.
Pileipellis: a cutis of repent hyphae, clamp connections present.
Substrate: leaf litter with a high woody content.
Habitat: wet sclerophyll forest dominated by Eucalyptus species.
Notes: a tall and tough collybiod Gymnopus with a mid-brown cap and a noticeably striate stipe. It does not accord with any of the descriptions in Grgurinovic.
Collections examined: PL80124, Maroochy Bushland Botanic Garden, Patrick Leonard; 10 Jan 2024.
What
Amanita marmorataObserver
pat-leonardPlace
Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden, 51 Palm Creek Rd, Tanawha QLD 4554, Australia (Google, OSM)Description
Clearly showing the grey and white marbling on the cap.
What
Genus AmanitaObserver
pat-leonardPlace
Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden, 51 Palm Creek Rd, Tanawha QLD 4554, Australia (Google, OSM)Photos / Sounds
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Order BoletalesObserver
pat-leonardDescription
Cap velutinate, reddish brown, pores brilliant lemon yellow bruising blue, cut flesh reddening then blueing. Keyed in Watling and Li.
Observer
pat-leonardDescription
Medium sized fungus, cap violaceous and viscid at first becoming light brown, stipe white with violaceous tinge, tall, spores rusty brown, amydaliform, warty. Keyed in Horak and Wood.
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Descolea maculataObserver
pat-leonardDescription
Rugulose yellow brown cap, pleated ring on stipe, yellow brown amygdaliform spores.
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Genus ClitopilusObserver
pat-leonardDescription
Cream cap, pink gills with a dark blue edge, pink non angular spores. Probably an undescribed Clitopilus
What
Genus GymnopusObserver
pat-leonardDescription
A smallish cream coloured Gymnopus with crowded white gills growing on a dead termite mound. Keys to Gymnopus in FunKey but not to species. Undescribed.
Observer
pat-leonardDescription
A small brown fungus with a very fibrillose cap, smooth ellipsoid spores and thin walled non ornamented clavate pleuricystidia. Fits A. areanacolens well except that there is no mention of a prominent umbo in the original description. Might be new
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Laccaria lateritiaObserver
pat-leonardDescription
Two spored basidia, pink cap, growing under native trees, spores globose. Keyed in Grgurinovic.
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Amanita peltigeraObserver
pat-leonardDescription
Amanita with grey cap, paler velar patch, stipe with no ring and bulbous base with velar edge. Spores amyloid and ellipsoid. Velar patch consists of mixed hyphae and ovoid cells.
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Genus CortinariusObserver
pat-leonardDescription
A brown Cortinarius with a hygrophanous yellowish brown cap. Rusty brown warty spores.
What
Genus CortinariusObserver
pat-leonardDescription
A brown capped Cortinarius with few distinguishing features apart from the warty rusty brown spores.
Observer
pat-leonardDescription
A reddish brown Polyporus with a lateral stipe and very small pores, about 7 per mm.
Observer
pat-leonardDescription
A small violaceous grey Cortinarius. Keyed to Cortinarius microarcheri in Horak & Wood's key. Spore sizes match.
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Cortinarius archeriObserver
pat-leonardDescription
Purplish cap gills and stipe browning as it matures with purple retained on the stipe. Keyed in Horak & Wood's key to Myxacium.
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Genus EntolomaObserver
pat-leonardDescription
A dark brown fungus with a fibrillose cap and pink spores growing on wood. The spores are angular, heterodiametric, 9 - 10 x 5 - 7 mu. Not in Norrdeloos & Gates. Probably an undescribed species.
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Genus PorphyrellusObserver
pat-leonardDescription
Large (120 mm diameter) grey cap with black squamules, grey angular pores staining black when bruised, off white flesh blackening on exposure to aire, fusoid boletoid spores, 9.5 x 4 mu. Differs from European P. porphyrosporus. Full description in Fungi fo Queensland on Quensland Mycological Society website
Observer
pat-leonardDescription
Austroboletus with a viscid brown cap and viscid brown network on a paler stipe.
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Trametes coccineaObserver
pat-leonardDescription
Red to orange small polypore on dry wood. The most common polypore in Australia
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Amanita umbrinellaObserver
pat-leonardDescription
Cap grey brown, velar remains paler, stipewhite with persistant ring, base swollen but not bulbous, spores inamloid, 12.5 x 9.5, Q = 1.3. Keyed in Wood.
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Genus PhylloporusObserver
pat-leonardDescription
Phylloporus sulcatus. Cap convex, dark brown, gills golden yellow, with lamellulae, no cros gills, flesh white, spores boletois 10 x 4, mu Q = 2.4.