Xylobolus illudens (resupinate)

Description:

Very papery to feel; brown-pink with a lifted white margin; hairy just under margin; the whole patch was about 120mm long.

Habitat:

On a very weathered and sculpted stick in a damp, shady gully with eucalyptus and some introduced species.

Notes:

This fungus can appear in a very different form of small, hairy shells... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/384... Stereum illudens (old name) is a wood-rotting bracket fungus in Australia, NZ... http://virtualmycota.landcareresearch.co... http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/sh...