Sighting 4192926
Cyathus sp.
A Bird's Nest Fungus at Dunlop, ACT
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| Cyathus sp. | Heino1 | 7 Feb 2019 | |
| Unverified | purple66 | 6 Feb 2019 |
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User's notes
A bird's nest fungus appearing after recent rain
3 comments
7 Feb 2019
A 'Bird's Nest Fungus'. With the smooth, pale interior surface of the 'nest', with its widely fluted margins and pale brown hairy external surface it's possibly Cyathus olla! What do you think Heino? You know the species down your way better than me.
7 Feb 2019
I’d think Cyathus stercoreus is a possibility. It has a shaggy outer surface (though in aged specimens this shagginess may disappear to some degree) whereas Cyathus olla has a smooth to slightly hairy surface and I think of it as usually with a more widely flared mouth. Stercoreus is probably the commonest Cyathus in Canberra (often in large colonies) and I have (for sure) collected olla twice in the ACT (in the CSIRO grounds and at the ANU – probably within a kilometre or so of each other) but I do have some unidentified collections to work through. For the moment I’ll put this in Cyathus. I’ll have to check if there are any macroscopic stercoreus look-alikes (microscopically the large spores give it away immediately) and then I’ll see about putting a description and notes about stercoreus (or perhaps ‘stercoreus group’) up on Canberra Nature Map.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.018889-35.198611
- Altitude 574.0m
- Places Dunlop, ACT
Sighting information
- 300 Abundance
- 6 Feb 2019 09:10 AM Recorded on
- purple66 Recorded by
Collections
- purple66 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Cyathus sp. Cup with one or more 'eggs' inside [birds nest fungi and cannonball fungus] Disk-like to cup-like Fungi
Species information
- Cyathus sp. Scientific name
- A Bird's Nest Fungus Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 786.6m Recorded at altitude