Patellaria
Paddys River, ACT
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| Patellaria | Heino | 8 Jul 2016 | |
| Unverified | KenT | 7 Jul 2016 |
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User's notes
Count is of visible colonies as indicated by dark lines separating light areas on decorticated wood in the third image
2 comments
8 Jul 2016
The photos don't provide indisputable proof of this being a species of Patellaria, but they do provide good circumstantial evidence. Patellaria fruiting bodies are a little unusual in that they keep a neat discoid shape when dry (whereas many of the discoid ascomycetes become noticeably distorted on drying). When dry I've found the black disks to be fairly hard but they become a little gelatinous on wetting. Small black dots on wood can be a problem because there is always the question of whether, rather than seeing a non-lichenized fungus, you are looking at the fungal fruiting bodies of a lichen (and, to make it more of a challenge, some wood-inhabiting lichens can have fairly indistinct thalli, with the fruiting bodies being the dominant feature). However, the odd conversation or two with a lichenologist friend during field work has led me to go for the non-lichenized Patellaria when I see this sort of look in a photo.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.906000-35.522250
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Paddys River, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 8 Jun 2016 01:53 PM Recorded on
- KenT Recorded by
Collections
- Fungi Disk-like to cup-like Cups or disks - with no 'eggs' KenT Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Patellaria
Species information
- Patellaria Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible