Trametes coccinea (Scarlet Bracket)
Trametes coccinea fruit bodies are orange or reddish-orange and grow from wood, mostly dead wood. Usually, the fruit bodies are shelf-like outgrowths and so have distinct upper and lower surfaces. With age the upper surface may fade or even be bleached to white and you see a mix of bleached and unbleached fruit bodies in this photo: http://www.cpbr.gov.au/fungi/images-captions/pycnoporus-sp-0305.html. However, the underside keeps the orange colour. Viewed from above a fruit body often looks like a section of a circle that has been produced by making a straight cut parallel to, but well away from, the diameter and then gluing that whole flat edge to the wood. The fruit body may extend several centimetres out from the wood and, at the attached edge, may be many centimetres long (and up to a centimetre or so thick). The fruit body has a corky texture and the upper surface is smooth to finely velvety whereas on the underside there are tiny pores, up to 8 per millimetre. In this photo (http://www.cpbr.gov.au/fungi/images-captions/pycnoporus-sp-0116.html) you see a close-up view of an underside of a fruit body.
Fabisporus sanguineus fruit bodies have the same orange colour but (1) the fruit bodies are thinner, up to about 5 millimetres and (2) have a narrow attachment to the wood, very stem-like in appearance.
Both species are found in many countries, Trametes coccinea at various locations in or bordering the Indian or Pacific Oceans and Pycnoporus sanguineus more widespread but generally in tropical or sub-tropical regions.
Trametes coccinea 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 | Gippsland | Greater Brisbane | Wide Bay | South West Western Australia
Species information
- Trametes coccinea Scientific name
- Scarlet Bracket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 898.53m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Synonyms
Pycnoporus coccineus Pycnoporus coccineus
Location information
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Maps
Barren Grounds Nature Reserve Bawley Point Bushcare Bawley Point Walking Track Ben Boyd National Park Bodalla State Forest Bournda Environment Education Centre Bournda National Park Broulee Moruya Nature Observation Area Eurobodalla National Park Four Winds Gulaga National Park Kangaroo Valley LB Block Manyana Inyadda Drive development area Mogo State Forest Morton National Park Mumbulla State Forest Murramarang National Park Panboola Seven Mile Beach National Park South East Forest National Park South Pacific Heathland Reserve Ulladulla Wildflower Reserve WI Private Property -
Places
Berry, NSW Green Cape, NSW Kangaroo Valley, NSW Merimbula, NSW Mogo, NSW Moollattoo, NSW Moruya, NSW Pebbly Beach, NSW Porters Creek, NSW Surf Beach, NSW Tilba Tilba, NSW Ulladulla, NSW Wapengo, NSW
