Hypholoma fasciculare (Hypholoma fasciculare)
The fruit body is a mushroom. The circular cap is shallowly convex to flat, sometimes up to 5 centimetres in diameter, smooth, in shades of yellow towards the margin but orange-brown or red-brown towards the centre. The gills are initially yellow-green but are overlaid with dark grey to blackish tints as the spores mature. The stem often no more than 5 centimetres long (but sometimes longer) has colours similar to those of the cap.
A cobwebby partial veil (or cortina) is present in a young mushroom but very little evidence (often none of it remains once the cap has opened out.
The mushrooms usually grow in dense clusters, sometimes many tens to a cluster.
Spore print: dark purple brown. Given the clustered growth, it is common to see a dark spore deposit on the lower cap of an overlapping pair.
Found on dead wood in a variety of habitats.
Hypholoma fasciculare is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | South Coast
Species information
- Hypholoma fasciculare Scientific name
- Hypholoma fasciculare Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1166m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
