Australian Capital Territory
Canberra & Southern Tablelands
New South Wales
Canberra & Southern Tablelands
The fruit body is a stemless cap, attached directly to wood. The cap has a leathery texture and may be close to semi-circular, fan-shaped or lobed. Its upper surface is whitish to grey (or a little pinkish when well-hydrated) and with a dense, hairy covering that makes it furry to the touch. On the beige to greyish underside there are gills, but they occur in close, parallel pairs, as if one thick gill had been sliced in two, lengthwise, and this is the basis of the name Schizopyllum. It is derived from two Greek words schizo (split) and phullon (leaf), for gills are flat and somewhat leaf-like and in this species they are split.
Sometimes you see a greenish colour – algae. The hairy surface may trap algal spores and since the hairy surface can hold moisture the cap can be an algally-friendly microhabitat.
This is a cosmopolitan species that is found on a wide range of live or dead wood, in a wide variety of habitats. The fruit bodies usually appear in large numbers, often overlapping.
The combination of colour, furriness and split gills makes this an unmistakeable species.
Schizophyllum commune is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Southern Highlands | Albury, Wodonga | South Coast | Greater Sydney | Hunter Region | New South Wales North Coast | Hume | Greater Melbourne | Townsville | South West Western Australia
Maps
Albury Alpine Shire ANBG ANU Daley Precinct Australian National University Barren Grounds Nature Reserve Beowa National Park Blue Range Bodalla State Forest Boro Broulee Moruya Nature Observation Area Bundanoon CA0732 Cooma North Ridge Reserve Deua National Park (CNM area) Eastern Hill Reserve Genoplesium plumosum target area Genoplesium vernale target area Gulaga National Park Jerrawangala National Park Lot 204 and Lot 4559 Brookton Highway Lower Cotter Catchment Lyneham Ridge Meroo National Park Mogo State Forest Mongarlowe River Morton National Park Morton National Park Mount Ainslie Mulligans Flat Namadgi National Park National Arboretum Forests O'Connor Ridge to Gungahlin Grasslands Panboola Penrose Red Hill Nature Reserve Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek Seven Mile Beach National Park South East Forest National Park Sullivans Creek, Turner Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Umbagong District Park Wingecarribee Local Government Area Wollondilly Local Government Area Wonga WetlandsPlaces
Acton, ACT Bargo, NSW Bemboka, NSW Bermagui, NSW Bright, VIC Bundanoon, NSW Byron Bay, NSW Caparra, NSW Copmanhurst, NSW Dalmeny, NSW East Albury, NSW Emerald, VIC Faulconbridge, NSW Green Cape, NSW Jerrawangala, NSW Mogo, NSW Moruya, NSW Olinda, VIC Paddys River, ACT Penrose, NSW Roleystone, WA Splitters Creek, NSW Surf Beach, NSW Tilba Tilba, NSW Townsville City, QLD Twelve Mile Peg, NSW Yarralumla, ACT
