| Common Names: |
Golden Tufts
Golden-scruffy Collybia
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| Scientific Name: |
Cyptotrama aspratum
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| Similar Species: |
No similar bright orange species (in Victoria at least)
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| Habitat: |
Found mostly on decaying logs and other woody material, particularly in tropical and subtropical rainforests.
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| Appears: |
mostly April—June
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| Description: |
A distinctive fungus with a bright orange cap, paler stalk and white gills.
The cap is "hairy" in appearance with its fibrillose scales,
particularly when young (these collapse as the fruiting fungus decays).
Fruiting bodies emerge as bright-orange specks and quickly take on the characteristics of mature specimens
with the exception that the cap is more globular at first before flattening as it matures.
Mature caps are generally 10-20mm in diameter.
They can sometimes appear as individuals but more commonly forming scattered colonies on logs.
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| Status: |
Endemic to many tropical regions around the world.
uncommon in Victoria
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| References: |
- Personal observations
- Australian Fungi Illustrated (I. R. McCann, ISBN 0 9750780 0 3)
- A Field Guide to Australian Fungi (Bruce Fuhrer, ISBN 1 876473 51 7)
- Wikipedia
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