Ramaria filicicola
Macquarie, ACT
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| Ramaria filicicola | Heino | 22 Jun 2017 |
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Herbarium collection HL6133 at CANB
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23 Jun 2017
These were growing out from the vertical face of a well-rotted log in a suburban garden. In the second photo parts of some white thread-like rhizomorphs are visible (e.g. arrowed at the lower right). Around the stem bases you see white, cotton-wool-like mycelial mats and also present on the wood (as pointed to by the vertical arrow) is another fungus, but pale grey. In the third photo I show a better-developed specimen and (inset at the lower left) two spores. The reddish colour is a stain to enhance contrast against the potassium hydroxide (KOH) mounting fluid. In KOH the spores are a pale yellow-brown and without a stain don’t show well in a photo. Spores have an ornamentation of scattered, low warts and measured 5.6-7.2 x 3.2-4.0 microns. On another technical note: I checked that both the thin-walled and thick-walled hyphae that are expected in the rhizomorphs of this species were present (and the thick-walled were the majority).
Location information
- Coordinates 149.066111-35.250556
- Places Macquarie, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 31 Jul 2016 04:46 PM Recorded on
- Heino Recorded by
Collections
- Heino NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Coralloid fungi, markedly branched Fungi Ramaria filicicola
Species information
- Ramaria filicicola Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
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