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Oyster Rollrim
Tapinella panuoides
-37.8573, 145.321
Field Notes
Description:
Layers of cream-coloured firm brackets with rolled edges looking like oyster mushrooms. They brackets enlarge with age and margins become lobed as in pic 3. Last three photos were taken 3 weeks later.
Emerging brackets showed moisture droplets on top and on the underside. a brown stain in the droplets, suggestive of a yellow-brown spore print.
Close set pale brown gills fanned out from base of bracket to the thinner margins.
Habitat:
Spotted on a decaying pine log in a nature reserve.
Occurence:
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/TAPINELLA+PANUOIDES
Notes:
A natural phenolic compound, Atromentin, is found in this species of mushrooms. The compound has its uses as an anti-coagulant, antibacterial agent and is shown to cause cell death in human Leukaemia cells. <br>
Order: Boletales
Family: Tapinellaceae
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