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Polyporus melanopus
About 60mm tall and the same width; a very tough dry top surface - almost shell-like; eccentric stipe; very small white pores underneath extending partly down the stipe; an attractive, fine red and yellow line around the margin.
On the top of a wet, mossy log in very tall eucalyptus rain forest.
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Polyporus
http://www.elfram.com/fungi/fungi_q/poly...
Could this be related ? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/246...
Spotted on Apr 16, 2013
Submitted on Apr 18, 2013
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