Brindabella National Park species

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11 species

Artomyces sp. (A coral fungus)

Coprinellus etc. (An Inkcap)

Drechmeria gunnii (Dark Vegetable Caterpillar)

Mycena 'clarkeana group'

Mycena interrupta (Pixie's Parasol)

Omphalotus nidiformis (Ghost Fungus)

Pisolithus marmoratus (Horse Dung Fungus)

Trametes sp.

Tremella fuciformis (Snow Fungus)

Xylobolus illudens (Purplish Stereum)

zz Agaric (stemless)

Species Richness Score (SRS)

943

• Area (hectares) 21292.22 ha
• Survey Effort Score (SES) 0.03 sightings per ha

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Conservation level

Invasiveness

Fungi

• Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like]
• Caps on stems; pores below caps [boletes & stemmed polypores]
  • Boletes - Fleshy texture, stems central (more-or-less)
  • Polypores - Non-fleshy texture, stems central or lateral
• Caps on stems; teeth below caps
• Caps on stems; none of the above
  • Caps conical/spherical & deeply pitted [morels]
  • Caps saddle-like to markedly convoluted [false morels]
  • Caps funnel-like
  • Caps otherwise
• Caps, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like]
  • Furry, white or greyish upper surfaces
  • Gills connected by cross veins
  • Other caps, gills below, no stem
• Shelf-like to hoof-like & usually on wood
  • Pored or somewhat maze-like on underside [bracket polypores]
  • Teeth on underside
  • Underside smooth or wrinkled/roughened <Stereum etc>
• Puffballs & the like
  • Simple spore sac, with an apical hole [puffballs]
  • Spore sac on a star-like base [earthstars]
  • Fruitbody thick walled, splitting from the top
  • Fruitbody walls break away to expose the spores
  • Other puffballs, etc (& the unknowns)
• Stinkhorns: with a smelly, brownish spore slime
  • Stinkhorns, radiating arms atop a stem
  • Stinkhorns, cage-like
  • Stinkhorns, some other shape- and miscellaneous
• Clubs or stalks (maybe a forked or broader apex)
  • Clubs/stalks on soil
  • Clubs/stalks on wood or on leaf/twig litter
  • Clubs/stalks on invertebrates
• Coralloid fungi, markedly branched
• Disk-like to cup-like
  • Cup with one or more 'eggs' inside [birds nest fungi and cannonball fungus]
  • Cups or disks - with no 'eggs'
• Convoluted to brain-like [Brain jelly & look-alikes]
• Fungal galls, other rusts, leaf spots, etc
  • Fungal galls
  • Other rusts, leaf spots, sooty moulds
• Other fungi on wood
  • Jelly-like; smooth, featureless surface
  • Spherical or cobblestone-like or spotted/pimpled crust <perithecial>
  • Other black fungi <hysterothecial>
  • Other non-black fungi
• Truffles
• Other fungi
  • Moulds
  • Not moulds
• Uncategorised Fungi

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