Dacrymyces sp.

 

The fruitbody is soft and jelly-like. It starts as a tiny pustular growth and the mature fruitbody may still be pustular, though larger. However, there are species with cup-like or lobed fruitbodies and also species in which there is a short stalk topped with a spoon-like, cup-like or lobed enlargement.

 

Fruitbodies are typically no more than a few millimetres in breadth or height but may grow in dense clusters, with neighboring fruitbodies merging (especially those species where the fruitbody remains pustular) so as to create irregular shapes that may be spread over  several square centimetres.

 

Yellow to orange are common colours but other colours occur.

 

The fruitbodies grow on wood.

 

Look-alikes

 

If you see yellow to orange pustules no more than a few millimetres in diameter and on wood then Dacrymyces is very likely. Pustules of other colours or jelly-like fruitbodies of other shapes may belong to various genera.

 

Dacrymyces sp. is listed in the following regions:

Canberra & Southern Tablelands  |  South Coast


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Species information

  • Dacrymyces sp. Scientific name
  • Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • 110.48m to 824.44m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
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