Trametes coccinea (Scarlet Bracket)
Trametes coccinea fruit bodies are orange or reddish-orange and grow from wood, mostly dead wood. Usually, the fruit bodies are shelf-like outgrowths and so have distinct upper and lower surfaces. With age the upper surface may fade or even be bleached to white and you see a mix of bleached and unbleached fruit bodies in this photo: http://www.cpbr.gov.au/fungi/images-captions/pycnoporus-sp-0305.html. However, the underside keeps the orange colour. Viewed from above a fruit body often looks like a section of a circle that has been produced by making a straight cut parallel to, but well away from, the diameter and then gluing that whole flat edge to the wood. The fruit body may extend several centimetres out from the wood and, at the attached edge, may be many centimetres long (and up to a centimetre or so thick). The fruit body has a corky texture and the upper surface is smooth to finely velvety whereas on the underside there are tiny pores, up to 8 per millimetre. In this photo (http://www.cpbr.gov.au/fungi/images-captions/pycnoporus-sp-0116.html) you see a close-up view of an underside of a fruit body.
Pycnoporus sanguineus fruit bodies have the same orange colour but (1) the fruit bodies are thinner, up to about 5 millimetres and (2) have a narrow attachment to the wood, very stem-like in appearance.
Both species are found in many countries, Trametes coccinea at various locations in or bordering the Indian or Pacific Oceans and Pycnoporus sanguineus more widespread but generally in tropical or sub-tropical regions.
Trametes coccinea is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Southern Highlands | Albury, Wodonga | South Coast | Greater Sydney | Hunter Region | New South Wales North Coast | Hume | Gippsland | Greater Brisbane | Wide Bay | South West Western Australia
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Species information
- Trametes coccinea Scientific name
- Scarlet Bracket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 898.53m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Synonyms
Pycnoporus coccineus Pycnoporus coccineus
Location information
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Maps
ANBG Aranda Bushland Bango Nature Reserve Banksia Street Wetland Corridor Barneys Hill/Mt Stranger Barracks Flat Drive Reserve Black Mountain Boro Bruce Ridge Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill Bullen Range Bungonia National Park Caladenia Forest, O'Connor Callum Brae Cooma North Ridge Reserve Cotter Reserve Deua National Park (CNM area) Dryandra St Woodland Farrer Ridge Flea Bog Flat, Bruce Ginninderry Conservation Corridor Gorman Road Bush Reserve, Goulburn Gossan Hill Goulburn Mulwaree Council Gungahlin Pond Hall Horse Paddocks Hughes Garran Woodland Hughes Grassy Woodland Illilanga & Baroona Isaacs Ridge and Nearby Isaacs Ridge Offset Area Jerrabomberra Wetlands Kama Lake Burley Griffin West Lake Ginninderra Lower Cotter Catchment Mcleods Creek Res (Gundaroo) Molonglo River Reserve Mongarlowe River Mount Ainslie Mount Gray Recreation Reserve, Goulburn Mount Jerrabomberra Mount Jerrabomberra QP Mount Majura Mount Mugga Mugga Mount Painter Mount Taylor Mundoonen Nature Reserve National Arboretum Forests Oakdale Nature Reserve Percival Hill Pine Island to Point Hut Pomaderris Nature Reserve Red Hill Nature Reserve Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek Rocky Hill War Memorial Park and Bush Reserve, Goulburn Rugosa Scott Nature Reserve South East Forest National Park Sth Tablelands Ecosystem Park Stirling Park Stony Creek Nature Reserve Sweeney's TSR The Fair, Watson The Pinnacle Tuggeranong Hill Umbagong District Park West Belconnen Pond West Stromlo Woodstock Nature Reserve -
Places
Bombay, NSW Bungonia, NSW Captains Flat, NSW Collector, NSW Goulburn, NSW Gundaroo, NSW Hall, ACT Hughes, ACT Jerrawa, NSW Lake George, NSW Mongarlowe, NSW Nicholls, ACT
