There are now 105 target species, chosen so as to be readily recognisable in the field. The Fungimap website is currently being rebuilt. You can see details of 100 of the target species on the old website at: http://fungimap.rbg.vic.gov.au/fsp/fsp.html Five new target species have recently been added to the project. These are detailed below: |
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Favolaschia calocera Orange Ping Pong Bats | The fruit body is bright orange and has pores on the underside of the cap, which is up to 20mm in diameter. There is a stipe up to 15mm long, attached near the edge of the pileus. It grows in large colonies on fallen dead wood. This fungus occurs naturally in in Asia and Madagascar, but has been introduced to new Zealand and Europe. It has recently been sighted around Melbourne and at Lamington National Park as a 'fungal weed'. |
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Fuligo septica Dog Vomit Slime Mould
Photo: P.George | Plasmodium a slimy, usually yellow, sometimes white, creamy or dull pink, indistinct blancmange-like mass. Fruiting body an aethelium; cushion-like, rather irregular, spongy, fragile 2-20cm diameter, 1-3cm thick, white, pink, yellow to reddish, outer surface a chalky crust, interior a powdery mass of dark grey spores. Spreading over moss, leaf litter, mulch or decaying wood and bark. When mature, the interior is like a puffball, but the outer covering is chalky and easily disrupted. The fruit body is not spherical but flows over the substrate. Fruiting time: throughout the year |
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Lycogala epidendrum Wolf's Milk
Photo: P.George | Plasmodium pink, coral red, orange, cream; round; interior liquid, slimy, cinnabar red. Fruiting body an aethelium. Occurring in small groups, scattered to crowded, globular; pinkish-grey, yellowish-brown, olive to almost black; 3-15mm diameter, outer surface dry, interior powdery at maturity; pink, grey or brown. On rotting wood, sometimes on bark and wood debris. |
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Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa Icicle Fairy Fans
Photo: P.George | Plasmodium watery and translucent. Fruit bodies of tiny, fragile, erect, simple or branched clubs arranged in rosettes; usually white, sometimes pink, pale yellow to yellowish-green; individual clubs to 10mm high. Often forming extensive masses on wet bark and wood. Extremely fragile and collapsing when touched. |
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Hemitrichia serpula Yellow Scribbles
Photo: P.Davison | Plasmodium white, becoming yellow when fruiting. Fruiting body, a plasmodiocarp forming a net to serveral centimetres, each 'arm' of the net 0.5mm across, rounded, bright yellow to red-brown. Outer surface transparent, thicker below, splitting longitudinally to expose spore mass. On decaying wood. |
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