A fire fungus at Belconnen, ACT
Identification history
| Pyronema sp. | 2 Apr 2016 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 17 Mar 2016 | CathB |
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User's notes
A slime mould? Common on burnt soil and wood after fuel reduction burn 3 weeks previously.
1 comment
Heino
wrote:
22 Mar 2016
I'd say fungal and with a good chance of being in the genus Pyronema. Species of this genus are yellow to orange and are well-known to colonize burnt areas not long after a fire. The individual fruiting bodies are small disks (often no more than a millimetre in diameter) but can be produced in such large numbers that it is very hard to see the individual disks. In this photo (https://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/images-captions/pyronema-sp-0208.html) you can see a few individual disks, but most are massed together. A rough calculation (comparing disk size with area covered by the fungus) tells me there must be at least 400 disks in the scene.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.077180-35.267315
- Maps Aranda Bushland
- Survey points Point 3852
- Places Belconnen, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 15 Mar 2016 08:12 AM Recorded on
- CathB Recorded by
Species information
- Pyronema sp. Scientific name
- A fire fungus Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Machine learning
