Sighting 4351221
Fringed Polypore at Black Range, NSW
Identification history
| Lentinus arcularius | 16 Oct 2020 | Pam | ||
| Lentinus arcularius | 16 Oct 2020 | Pam | ||
| Agarics | 16 Oct 2020 | StephH |
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User's notes
Looks a bit like an agaric but has pore-like gills. Caps about 40 mm across.
3 comments
Pam
wrote:
16 Oct 2020
This little 'polypore' used to be known as Polyporus arcularius and like so many plants and fungi taxonomic work has resulted in a name change! This is a distinctive little polypore, for if you look at the pores they are of an angular composition sometimes referred to as 'coffin shaped' that are pale often creamish in colour. The cap is usually indented in the centre and covered in fine flattened scales usually a pale brownish/greyish in colour. They often have a row of fine hairs radiating out from the edge of the cap.
I have often found they are one of the first fungi I see after winter. An early herald for the season ahead. Well let's hope anyway. Lovely clear image of the cap surface.
I have often found they are one of the first fungi I see after winter. An early herald for the season ahead. Well let's hope anyway. Lovely clear image of the cap surface.
StephH
wrote:
16 Oct 2020
Thanks Pam. I noticed the unusual shape of the pores. Hope I see a lot of them, and other fungi, this year.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.849509-36.731601
- Places Black Range, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 Abundance
- 16 Oct 2020 03:30 PM Recorded on
- StephH Recorded by
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Collections
StephH South Coast NatureMapr Lentinus arcularius Polypores - Non-fleshy texture, stems central or lateral Caps on stems; pores below caps [boletes & stemmed polypores] Fungi
Species information
- Lentinus arcularius Scientific name
- Fringed Polypore Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1267m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Polyporus arcularius