Laetiporus portentosus

White Punk at Mount Clear, ACT

Laetiporus portentosus at Mount Clear, ACT - 27 Jan 2021
Laetiporus portentosus at Mount Clear, ACT - 27 Jan 2021
Request use of media

Identification history

Laetiporus portentosus 23 Feb 2021 Heino1
Laetiporus portentosus 31 Jan 2021 MichaelMulvaney
Unidentified 28 Jan 2021 JBrickhill

Identify this sighting


Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.

User's notes

Fungi on trunk of dead black sallee E. stellulata probably killed by fire Jan 2020. Fungi fruiting body about 2 m from the ground. Other small fruiting bodies further up the trunk

Be the first to comment


Please Login or Register to comment.

Location information

Sighting information

  • 1 Abundance
  • 27 Jan 2021 12:26 PM Recorded on
  • JBrickhill Recorded by

Species information

  • Laetiporus portentosus Scientific name
  • White Punk Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-Invasive
  • Up to 995m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
  • External link More information
  • Synonyms

    Piptoporus eucalyptorum (Fr.) Warcup, Ecology Forests Woodlands South Australia: 131 (1986) Piptoporus portentosus (Berk.) G. Cunn., Bull. N.Z. Dept. Sci. Industr. Res., Pl. Dis. Div. 164: 106 (1965) Piptoporus eucalyptorum Piptoporus portentosus

Record quality

  • Images or audio
  • More than one media file
  • Confirmed by an expert moderator
  • Nearby sighting(s) of same species
  • GPS evidence of location
  • Description
  • Additional attributes
2,153,789 sightings of 19,949 species in 6,493 locations from 11,438 contributors
CCA 3.0 | privacy
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this land and acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.