Sighting 4386645
White Punk at Aranda, ACT
Identification history
| Laetiporus portentosus | 13 Dec 2021 | Heino1 | ||
| Myxomycete-plasmodium(class) | 22 Jul 2021 | drakes |
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User's notes
About 20 cm across (long axis). Second specimen only 2-3 cm across. Aranda Bushland towards Bindubi St bike underpass.
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Heino1
wrote:
23 Jul 2021
This is a well-chewed specimen of Laetiporus portentosus, one of the shelf-like polypore fungi. It's probably more common to see it chewed and fallen rather than still on a tree. Confirmation will have to await the species' re-appearance on the drop-down list.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.077092-35.266577
- Maps Aranda Bushland
- Places Aranda, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 19 Jul 2021 10:01 AM Recorded on
- drakes Recorded by
Species information
- Laetiporus portentosus Scientific name
- White Punk Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 995m Recorded at altitude
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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
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