Smooth Cage at Macquarie, ACT
Identification history
| Ileodictyon gracile | 28 Sep 2020 | Heino1 |
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The first photo shows three of the five fruitbodies in situ (after removal of the overlying mulch). All were still to open and all had been eaten into by some unknown invertebrate(s), with much or all of the spore-bearing arms gone. In the second photo I've cut one of them open and you see fragments of the white arms that would otherwise have formed a cage-like structure upon maturity. The smallest fruitbody had one chew hole but the immature, still-compressed cage was intact. In the third photo I show that fruitbody, cut open to reveal the compressed cage. The thick casing around the cage is soft and jelly-like.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.066111-35.250556
- Places Macquarie, ACT
Sighting information
- 5 Abundance
- 27 Sep 2020 03:36 PM Recorded on
- Heino1 Recorded by
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Fungi Stinkhorns, cage-like Stinkhorns: with a smelly, brownish spore slime Heino1 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Ileodictyon gracile Scientific name
- Smooth Cage Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 814.63m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
