Leratiomyces ceres (Leratiomyces ceres)

 

The fruit body is a mushroom with both stem and cap. The cap is often no more than about 5 centimetres in diameter. It is smooth and reddish brown or towards orange and is initially sticky, but often dries out. The gill tissue is a pale colour but the dark spore colour soon dominates, giving the gills a greyish purple to dark purplish brown colour.

 

The whitish stem (sometimes with some reddish discolouration) may grow to 5 (or more) centimetres in length and up to about a centimetre in diameter.

 

Here you see a cross-section of a cap:http://www.cpbr.gov.au/fungi/images-captions/hypholoma-aurantiacum-0135.html.

 

A partial veil is present in young mushrooms and a remnant may remain on the stem as a faint ring, but often the remnant is very scanty or absent.

 

Spore print: purplish black.

 

Found in various natural habitats, but it is also very common on woodchip mulch in suburban gardens, often in large numbers.

 

Previously known as Stropharia aurantiaca or Hypholoma aurantiaca.

 

 

Leratiomyces ceres is listed in the following regions:

Canberra & Southern Tablelands  |  South Coast

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