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Poronia erici/punctata

Lyons, ACT

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Poronia erici/punctata

15 Apr 2019

Heino1

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Heino1 wrote:

16 Apr 2019

There are at least 20 stromata in Photo 1. However, some are cryptic and the arrows in Photo 2 point out two of the less obvious ones. Each black dot on a white disk is the opening to an individual fruit body so you see that the stroma roughly at the centre of the photo contains four embedded fruit bodies. On the other hand, the arrows point to stromata which contain only one fruit body each. These were growing on dung and in Photo 3 you see a drawn back view of the the entire dropping.

Pam wrote:

16 Apr 2019

Good photo Heino of these tiny fungi. Were they growing on horse dung? The only Poronia I've seen up this way is Poronia oedipus which sits up on a little stalk, was growing on horse dung on a bush track.

Heino1 wrote:

16 Apr 2019

There is an equestrian trail in the lower part of Oakey Hill reserve but the Poronia was higher up where I saw no horse dung. I assume this was a well-weathered kangaroo dropping. I’ve only twice seen Poronia oedipus (and many years ago ) – but the two sites were only a kilometre or two part. One I noted as on cow dung and the other on dung in a grazing paddock.

Pam wrote:

16 Apr 2019

Thanks for that Heino.

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