Sighting 4201813
Cyathus stercoreus
Bird's nest fungus at Acton, ACT
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| Cyathus stercoreus | Heino1 | 4 Mar 2019 |
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On soil in the ANU grounds. Herbarium collection HL4653 at CANB.
2 comments
5 Mar 2019
These photos show various fruit bodies in one herbarium collection. The specimens were dried after collection. However, the fruit bodies have a low water content and so look much like this out in the wild (particularly in dry conditions). Photo 1 shows fruit bodies with the epiphragms still intact. The white rectangle in Photo 2 marks what you saw in Photo 1. The white arrows point to two fruit bodies in which the epiphragms have broken and so left the mouths of the fruit bodies open. At the upper right are four spores (naturally colourless but two I have stained red). On the left in Photo 3 you see one fruit body cut in half (with a large lump of substrate still attached at the bottom). In the peridiole-free upper area you can see the smoothness of the fruit body’s inner wall. The arrow points to the connection between one peridiole and the inner wall. On the right I show all the peridioles that were in one fruit body. The rightmost five have white funiculi. All the other peridioles lack funiculi and were I to turn them over you’d again see smooth, black surfaces. For a markedly different example see
https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Sightings/Details/4201815.
https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Sightings/Details/4201815.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.116667-35.275000
- Maps Australian National University ANU Dickson Precinct
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 15 Apr 2005 12:00 AM Recorded on
- Heino1 Recorded by
Collections
- Heino1 NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Cup with one or more 'eggs' inside [birds nest fungi and cannonball fungus] Disk-like to cup-like Fungi Cyathus stercoreus
Species information
- Cyathus stercoreus Scientific name
- Bird's nest fungus Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Cosmopolitan
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 804.4m Recorded at altitude
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4 / 7
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