Plectania

Cotter River, ACT

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Identification history

Plectania	28 Oct 2015	MichaelMulvaney
Plectania	26 Oct 2015	Heino
Unverified	25 Oct 2015	KenT

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I'm fairly sure this is in the family Sarcosomataceae and in Rifai's (1968) study on the Australasian Pezizales this would have keyed out to the genus Plectania, but that was then and now microscopic characters are needed to separate a number of genera including Plectania, unless someone is familiar with the individual species. Found growing on partially buried wood.

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Heino wrote:

27 Oct 2015

KenT's comment about Plectania is a good one. That's the genus I'd think of if I came across this locally - and I reckon a microscope would usually confirm that.

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Sighting information

4 Abundance
24 Oct 2015 01:56 PM Recorded on
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Fungi Disk-like to cup-like Cups or disks - with no 'eggs' KenT Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Species information

Plectania Scientific name
Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
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