Xylodon australis
West Goulburn Bushland Reserve
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| Xylodon australis | Heino1 | 4 Jul 2024 | |
| Unverified | trevorpreston | 3 Jul 2024 |
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User's notes
Fungi on tree trunk where a big sheet of bark had fallen off.
3 comments
4 Jul 2024
@Steve818 not a canker. This is the fully-developed, sporing state of one of the 'flat' fungi (or, to use the technical term, corticioid fungi). Xylodon australis is common on dead wood but at times you find quite large expanses on live trunks. The pinkish-brown to orange-brown colour and the surface with its short, densely-packed teeth tend to make this a fairly distinctive species. You find a few other genera of corticioid fungi on live trunks and in general it's a microscope job to get to genus.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.689338-34.754665
- Altitude 755.0m
- Maps West Goulburn Bushland Reserve Goulburn Mulwaree Council
- Places Goulburn, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 3 Jul 2024 04:16 PM Recorded on
- trevorpreston Recorded by
Collections
- Fungi associated with Eucalypts trevorpreston Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Xylodon australis Other non-black fungi Other fungi on wood Fungi
Species information
- Xylodon australis Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 610.13m to 755m Recorded at altitude
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