TASFUNGI

Found in leaf litter at the base of eucalypts. Smooth, dry brown cap to 10cm across with cream close to crowded gills that run slightly down the stipe (subdecurrent), Stipe to 10cm long. Photo: Dr Genevieve Gates

Soil dwelling species with a sticky white to buff brown cap, membranous annulus and white spore print (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014). Photo HElson.

Pale grey brown cap, gills are whitish turning black with age, hollow white stipe. Grows on decaying wood, also on buried wood. Photo by HElson.

This species is found in leaf litter and has small caps 3-5mm across, white gills and a hair-like translucent stipe (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014). Photo by Charlie Price.

A soil inhabiting species that has dry white cap, stipe and gills with a white spore print. A key identification feature is the white moveable annulus around the stipe (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014). Photo by Herman Anderson.

Found on leaf litter, bark and twigs, species in this genus can revive quickly after rain. This species is common and has a smooth, viscid, white translucent-striate cap that becomes radially grooved and pale brown as it matures. Thin, distant gills are whitish to pale brown. Often found growing on wood of Tasmanian Blanketbush (Bedfordia salicina) and Musk Daisybush (Olearia argophylla). Photo by Heather Elson.

An all white bell shaped polypore that iis found in groups on wood. Small pores on the underside of the fungus (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014). Photo by Charlie Price.

An all white bell shaped polypore that is found in groups on wood. Small pores on the underside of the fungus (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014). Photo by Charlie Price.

A wood dwelling species with white flat to funnel-shaped cap and white spore print. The stipe usually has tufts of white hairs at the base (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014). Photo by Genevieve Gates.

A wood dwelling species with white flat to funnel-shaped cap and white spore print. The stipe usually has tufts of white hairs at the base (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014). Photo by Genevieve Gates.

Soil dwelling, all white species with very powdery cap, white spore print.Stipe has a slight swelling at the base. Photo by Genevieve Gates.

Soil dwelling, all white species with very powdery cap, white spore print.Stipe has a slight swelling at the base. Photo by Genevieve Gates.

White with viscid cap, long slender stip to approx. 7cm in length, growing in soil, white spores (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014). Photo by Herman Anderson.

White with viscid cap, long slender stip to approx. 7cm in length, growing in soil, white spores (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014). Photo by Herman Anderson.

Wood inhabiting species, often found at base of living Eucalyptus obliqua trees, pale brown/cream caps to around 4cm across, with cream gills contrasts with the tough reddish/brown stipe. Common and found year round. (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014). Photo by Andrei Nikulinsky.

Wood inhabiting species with upper surface that is cream to yellow and undersurface of bright yellow-orange creases. Stipe short or absent (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014). Photo by Heather Elson.

Large species, caps over 10cm across, and thick stipes deep underground. Veil remnants usually scattered around the fruit body. Photo by Heather Elson.

Also known as 'jack-o-lantern mushrooms' because they are bioluminescent. Often confused with Oyster mushrooms. This species is usually found at the base of dead tree stumps or on buried wood and can be quite large - approx. 20cm across. The gills are white and run down the stipe which may be creamy or greyish and fairly long - Gates & Ratkowsky state up to 8cm long by 2cm wide.

Also known as 'jack-o-lantern mushrooms' because they are bioluminescent. Often confused with Oyster mushrooms. This species is usually found at the base of dead tree stumps or on buried wood and can be quite large - approx. 20cm across. The gills are white and run down the stipe which may be creamy or greyish and fairly long - Gates & Ratkowsky state up to 8cm long by 2cm wide.

Also known as 'jack-o-lantern mushrooms' because they are bioluminescent. Often confused with Oyster mushrooms. This species is usually found at the base of dead tree stumps or on buried wood and can be quite large - approx. 20cm across. The gills are white and run down the stipe which may be creamy or greyish and fairly long - Gates & Ratkowsky state up to 8cm long by 2cm wide.

Very small, around 5mm across cap, non-decurrent gills, translucent stipe, growing on dead eucalyptus trunk.

Found growing on twigs and leaf litter, cap whitish cream to pale orange. Tough stipe is lighter near the apex. Photo by Charlie Price.

Found growing on twigs and leaf litter, cap whitish cream to pale orange. Tough stipe is lighter near the apex. Photo by Charlie Price.

Whitish species often with yellow-brown stains that grows up to 50mm across in soil (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014).

Cosmopolitan species, with whitish, hairy upper surface, undersurface with greyish/white with longitudinally split gills and no stipe. Growing on wood, can survive dry periods and rehydrates after rain. Photo by Adrian Cooper

Smooth, dry whitish or pale greyish cap, with decurrent gills. Floury odour. Growing on soil. Photo by Heather Elson.

Smooth, dry whitish or pale greyish cap, with decurrent gills. Floury odour. Growing on soil. Photo by Heather Elson.

Growing on soil amongst grass.

Growing on soil amongst grass

Very small Mycena species 5mm or less across the cap, growing on wood. Photo by Heather Elson.

Whitish species often with yellow-brown stains that grows up to 50mm across in soil (Gates & Ratkowsky 2014).

Growing in soil. Photo by Heather Elson.

This white coloured species grows in soil.

Grows on wood

Also known as Lawyer's Wig, note how the bottom of the caps is starting to turn black, this is autodigestion happening.

Also known as Lawyer's Wig, note how the bottom of the caps have now shortened somewhat and are black, this is autodigestion happening.

Also known as Lawyer's Wig, note how the bottom of the caps have now nearly been totally autodigested!

A fairly large species growing in soil, typical spikey cap and bulbous base of stipe. Photo by Heather Elson.

Close up of Gills and annulus. Photo by Heather Elson.

Close up of underside of cap with the veil still intact. Photo by Heather Elson.