Other non-black fungi


 

As the heading suggests, this subgroup holds a mixed-bag of on-wood leftovers. A few examples of what you find in this subgroup are:

 

Some polypores. Mostly these would be the flat or sheet-like polypores (technically resupinate polypores), commonly found on the lower surfaces of dead or live wood. There are also a few species that produce pendant fruitbodies (and most likely to be seen in the Canberra Nature Map area are the rusty-brown Coltriciella fruitbodies on the underside of rotting wood).

 

Corticioid fungi. Mostly these occur on the underside of dead wood lying on the ground, though a few are found on live wood. Mostly the fruitbody is fairly thin (often like a coat of paint or a skin on the wood) and many have featureless surfaces, so it is understandable to see them sometimes called paint fungi. However, the surface may be rough (e.g. warted, toothed, densely wrinkled), though the roughness is usually under a millimetre in depth. Furthermore, fruitbodies range from a thin and almost invisible wash to densely cobwebby to leathery in texture.

 

Septobasidium. The fruitbodies in this genus are brown, velvety patches that appear on branches of live plants. Though the fruitbodies appear on wood, the fungi parasitize scale insects and under a velvety Septobasidium patch you will find scale insects.  

 


Other non-black fungi

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Heinol wrote:
Yesterday
The identification is based on a microscopic study of the specimen.

Phanerochaete burtii
Heinol wrote:
16 Oct 2025
A few minutes ago, when I was looking through photos of some of my herbarium collections I saw one that immediately reminded me of this sighting. I’ve added mine (https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/47048080). Mostly with these ‘flat’ fungi, identification to species (and often to genus) demands a microscopic examination of a specimen but I’m game enough to identify your sighting to species. Your subject matches mine in colour and texture. The two are not far distant from each other, since I collected the subject of my sighting between Calvary Hospital and Belconnen Way. This species is found in many places in the northern hemisphere but when it comes to Australia, I can find only 11 records of it (with yours the 12th). The other records are of herbarium specimens collected from Canberra & surrounds, near Forbes in NSW, near Hobart and near Perth. The species is undoubtedly more widespread in Australia, but is easily overlooked. I have also collected it in Black Mountain Reserve, on the small hill that is immediately north of Black Mountain. My collection points and the location of your sighting make a not-too-large triangle and I think it unlikely that the fungus occurs just at the corners of this triangle but is likely to be more widespread in the Bruce, Bruce Ridge, Black Mountain area. I’m interested in the ‘flat’ fungi, especially those with a soft consistency and I find it interesting that, here we have three sightings relatively close to each other. Otherwise, in the ACT, I have found this fungus once at Cook and once along Corin Dam Road.

Tomentellopsis echinospora
Heinol wrote:
16 Oct 2025
Perhaps Ceriporia or akin to it.

Corticioid fungi
Heinol wrote:
16 Oct 2025
Possibly a species of Ceriporia or Ceriporiopsis.

zz flat polypore - white(ish)
Heinol wrote:
16 Oct 2025
Perhaps a species of Pseudolagarobasidium.

Corticioid fungi
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