Sighting 3406732
Trametes (old Pycnoporus sp.)
Scarlet Bracket at Hughes, ACT
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| Trametes (old Pycnoporus sp.) | Heino1 | 9 Aug 2018 | |
| Unverified | JackyF | 8 Aug 2018 |
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User's notes
growing on stump
4 comments
9 Aug 2018
Perhaps a weathered Pycnoporus, but I'm far from sure about that. it's hard to say anything about this, given there's only a top view. Can you find out what the underside looks like?
9 Aug 2018
Thanks, I just replaced the photos with some better ones showing underside on left. I also added a sighting of another orange fungus growing in cracks in a dead log - the phone camera gives its location as someone's front garden, but it was in the public open space at the end of Glasgow Place.
10 Aug 2018
With a magnifying glass you'd see small holes on the underside (say about 5 per millimetre). Sometimes it comes out of wood first as an irregular 'blob' but then starts to develop into a shelf-like growth The upper side may become weathered with time (e.g. by becoming bleached or by gaining an algal or mouldy growth, so becoming discoloured) , but the underside generally keeps the strong orange colour. You see the genus on many types of wood.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.102572-35.327908
- Altitude 673.4m
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 8 Aug 2018 04:41 PM Recorded on
- JackyF Recorded by
Collections
- JackyF Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Trametes (old Pycnoporus sp.) Pored or somewhat maze-like on underside [bracket polypores] Shelf-like to hoof-like & usually on wood Fungi
Species information
- Trametes (old Pycnoporus sp.) Scientific name
- Scarlet Bracket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- -2.92m to 912.01m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Pycnoporus sp.