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A single, 45mm mushroom growing from a damp earth bank covered with leaf and bark litter. Looking like it once had gills it is now covered with a clean, white furry coating.
Under very tall gum trees in a dense rainforest national park.
I was thinking this could be some sort of Hypomyces but after checking dozens of similar records it seems likely that this is more likely the early stages of a Spinellus species. After more time the typical hair-like reproductive stalks, topped with sporangi (sporangiophores) might appear. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zKDjcLXZBTI/TE...
phylum: Zygomycota
order: Mucorales
family: Phycomycetaceae
Spotted on Apr 20, 2014
Submitted on Apr 20, 2014
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