Cymatoderma elegans Jungh 15422

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Description: Cymatoderma elegans Jungh. Image location: Swans Crossing State Forest, New South Wales, Australia These are common in the local ranges and have a long life span. Often find them with water in centre and small insects. Extrac fr Ref. B. Fuhrer. Caps or brackets to 150 mm across, somewhat polished in appearance,with radial and concentric ridging. Texture hard and woody. Stems central or lateral, dark brown, velvety. The white, pored undersurface rapidly turns dark reddish brown when bruised. Expanding fruit bodies frequently envelop grass and twigs. Found near decaying stumps and buried wood. Spores c. 9 × 7 Micro-m, ovoid, finely dotted. Spore print brownish yellow. Recognized by sight: Amauroderma rude is a polypore that stains reddish then black, II’ll post a picture. check http://fungimap.rbg.vic.gov.au/fsp/sp066.html Used references: Fungimap, A Field Guide to Australian Fungi, by Bruce Fuhrer : For more information about this, see the observation page at Mushroom Observer. English | español | français | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | português | +/−. Date: 26 February 2007. Source: : This image is Image Number 15422 at Mushroom Observer, a source for mycological images. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. English | español | français | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | português | +/−. Author: : This image was created by user Ian Dodd (kk) (www.kundabungkid.com) Australia (kundabungkid) at Mushroom Observer, a source for mycological images.You can contact this user here. English | español | français | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | português | +/−.