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Tapinella panuoides
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.
Spotted on a decaying pine log in a nature reserve. Occurence: http://bie.ala.org.au/species/TAPINELLA+...
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.
Order: Boletales
Family: Tapinellaceae
Spotted on Jun 4, 2014
Submitted on Jul 9, 2014
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