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Discinella

Discinella terrestris

Photo by Leuba Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

Starting off as small waxy convex buttons, these orange-yellow waxy fruiting bodies flatten out to discs with depressed centres. Some had undulating margins because of crowding.

Habitat:

Native forest -seen as small clumps on damp soil among rotting leaf debris.

Notes:

Endemic to Australia. Ascomycota

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Discinella terrestris

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