Helvella? olive-brown

 

This pigeon-hole has been created for a fungus with a deep, cup-like fruitbody that appears on the ground. The inner surface of the cup is olive to brownish, crumpled or puckered at the base but otherwise smooth. The smooth outer surface is paler.

 

It has some resemblance to the fungus long known as Helvella leucomelaena (more recently with a name change to Dissingia leucomelaena), but that species has darker colours. It seems likely that the local fungus is a species of Helvella or Dissingia, but until a specimen can be studied that remains a supposition, so there's a ? after the genus name.

Helvella? olive-brown is listed in the following regions:

Canberra & Southern Tablelands


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Species information

  • Helvella? olive-brown Scientific name
  • Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • 791m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
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