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Disc, Cup,  Ear Fungi, and Lichens

​Most large fungi you see are basidiomycetes, whereas cup and disc fungi and some truffles are Ascomycetes that have different types of spores.
Disc fungi  form  tiny disc-shaped and pebbly fruiting structures can be seen on dead wood and litter or as a component of  lichens.
Click here for images and information on local lichens
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Abortiporus sp. Decomposer in clumps of native grass. PF-N15
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Disc fungus on wood
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Disc fungus on dead grass tree stump
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Poronia erici tiny trumpets on kangaroo dung
Cartilaginous cup and ear fungi are decomposers that appear in plant litter and mulch
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Peziza vesiculosa PF A11
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Peziza sp on woodchips
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Peziza sp. in moist litter
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Plectana campylospora
some ascomycetes eat other fungi
The yellow spores below are from a parasitic ascomycete Hypomyces chrysocephalus Bolete Destroyer  at the Narrogin arboretum.
The Coltricia honeycomb type bracket fungi is being overcome by white hyphae and ginger fluffy growth of a Trichoderma ascomycete
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Coltricia bracket fungus being attacked by white/ginger Hypomyces
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Hypomyces chrysoporus
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Morchella species
​This single Morel (Morchella species) was found at Malyalling reserve in 2019. Very rare here
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