Australia. These single spines with pointed tips look like tiny icicles and, like icicles, they drip a watery substance from the tips. The translucent white fruit-bodies are attached to the wood by a short white stem. Generously sponsored by Junior Field Natur...

On wet leaves and litter of native vegetation. This tall, very thin, thread-like species is difficult to see. It consists of a white to tan head on a thinner, short, dark stem. The stem is attached to the substrate by a white mycelial disc or by fungal strands...

On the ground, amongst leaf litter in native vegetation, usually eucalypts, sheoaks and melaleuca species. Waxy, club-like fruit-bodies have tan to black, blunt heads and off-white stems. Club shapes vary from smooth and rounded to irregularly furrowed. They c...

On the ground, under mature wattles. This species appears above the ground as a sturdy club with creamy-brown head and stem. There is a characteristic sharp demarcation where the head joins the stem. Generously sponsored by Karen Retra.

(Synonym Cordyceps gunnii) On the ground, under mature wattles. Fruit-bodies appear above ground as sturdy blunt-ended clubs with a head and stem. The head is deep olive-green to black; characteristically, it integrates smoothly into the yellow stem. Generousl...