Australian Capital Territory
Canberra & Southern Tablelands
New South Wales
Canberra & Southern Tablelands
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Pyronemataceae
Common in recent weeks after fires, growing on burnt wood and soil. These fungi are hairless and their coalesceing growth results in a continuous mass. As these fungi mature the become powdery.
This genus is one of the first fungi to appear after fires and can be widespread and abunant.
It starts off as a white cobwebby mycelial feltwork (a mould looking structure) then as it matures it tends to move through pink to orange with a whitish mycelial margin. It grows on the burnt soil and wood.
Spores white.
Pyronema omphalodes is listed in the following regions:
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