Coprinellus etc.
An Inkcap at Cook, ACT
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| Coprinellus etc. | Heino1 | 3 Nov 2020 | |
| Coprinellus etc. | drakes | 2 Nov 2020 | |
| Coprinellus disseminatus | drakes | 27 Jun 2020 |
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User's notes
Caps about 15 mm across. Mt Painter reserve Wildflower Triangle near dam. On old fallen tree trunk (probably eucalypt). Photos 3 and 4 (browner above, white gills) found a week later (22 June 2020) about 10 m away. [Photos 3 and 4 subsequently removed as they were not Coprinellus.]
1 comment
2 Jul 2020
Photos 1 &2 belong to the Coprinellus/Coprinopsis group and photos 3 & 4 are of a Mycena species, In the former the gills are whitish when young but as the initially pale spores mature and darken (eventually to black) their colour dominates and, given the abundance of spores, makes the gills look brown to black. That colour change occurs fairly early so by the time the caps have fully opened you see dark gills. In Mycena the spores remain pale and mature spores are colourless under the microscope or white when seen in mass (e.g. in a spore print) so they don't dominate and dominate the colour of the gill tissue. In your example the gill tissue is also white but you see Mycenas with coloured gill tissue.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.074541-35.268158
- Places Cook, ACT
Sighting information
- 50 Abundance
- 15 Jun 2020 09:38 AM Recorded on
- drakes Recorded by
Collections
- drakes Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Coprinellus etc. Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like] Fungi
Species information
- Coprinellus etc. Scientific name
- An Inkcap Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1345.93m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Coprinellus spp.