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Dichostereum fungus

Dichostereum rhodosporum

Photo by Leuba Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

Bright white crusts with shelving edges growing on underside of a damp log. The white fruiting body had large droplets of liquid, mostly colourless.

Habitat:

Spotted on the underside of a damp eucalyptus log in a wet eucalyptus forest.

Notes:

Not mush information is available about this genus except photos of some of this fungus having a wispy, reticulated surface.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/wimmera.wildlife/15737845/in/album/334731

Order: Russulales <br>
Family: Lachnocladiaceae <br>

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PublishedApril 29, 2014

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