Phaeohelotium (Discinella terrestris aggregate)

Cotter River, ACT

Phaeohelotium (Discinella terrestris aggregate) at Cotter River, ACT - 5 Aug 2016
Phaeohelotium (Discinella terrestris aggregate) at Cotter River, ACT - 5 Aug 2016
Phaeohelotium (Discinella terrestris aggregate) at Cotter River, ACT - 5 Aug 2016
Phaeohelotium (Discinella terrestris aggregate) at Cotter River, ACT - 5 Aug 2016
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Identification history

Phaeohelotium (Discinella terrestris aggregate) 23 Aug 2016 Heino
Phaeohelotium sp. 22 Aug 2016 KenT

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Count of fruit bodies growing on burnt (2003 fires) ground adjacent to moss under a eucalypt overstorey. Suggested identification based on description and images in Baral et al. 2013, Mycosystema. 32(3):386-428

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Heino wrote:
   24 Aug 2016
You can click on that that long-winded name to see why I use it. There are at least two of these yellow, terrestrial Phaeohelotium species in the ACT, but the differences are in microscopic features.

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