Agarics

Bermagui, NSW

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Identification history

	Agarics	14 Mar 2020	Pam
	Agarics	2 Mar 2020	narelle

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4 comments

narelle wrote:

3 Mar 2020

I'm pretty sure that these are the same species as the ones I reported a couple of weeks ago with the brown droplets on. Later in the day when the droplets had dried, they looked like these fungi which came up nearby a couple of days later.

Pam wrote:

14 Mar 2020

I agree with you Narell. Though from these images it looks like the gills (lamellae) have some colour in them, which makes me suspicious they be some kind of Cortinarius rather than a Russula. If you look at the gills of the specimen at the back you can see that white hypomyces sp. starting to spread over them. These fungi do not look healthy, they looked stressed, as result of the parasitic hypomyces sp., which often distorts the infected fungus, not as badly as the ones you originally posted. If you look at the cap surface of the specimen on the left in the first image I suspect you are seeing what that surface would look like under normal conditions. Clusters of Cortinarius sublargus often come up in recently burnt areas and this species is turning up in the region. Have a look at the images under that name and see if you think these (without the mature spore colour in the gills) may possibly be similar?? These are very interesting records, thank you for uploading them.

narelle wrote:

15 Mar 2020

Thanks Pam. Yes they look very similar to the Cortinarius sublargus with the cracked mud like surface. The only thing is that those ones have a dished cap where as these ones have a domed cap. I suppose if these ones were healthy and strong they may have grown more to be upright and with a dished cap.

Pam wrote:

16 Mar 2020

It's always hard to say when fungi become infected they can become very distorted. As I said it's good to have this recorded, thank you.

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