On the ground. This showy, leathery species usually fruits within days of a fire. The cap is brown and velvety with a slightly depressed centre, and the stem is a similar colour and texture. Particularly distinctive are the toothed or broken edges of the cream...

In grass and lawns, mainly urban areas. This small tan to buff-coloured agaric is rather nondescript except when it forms fairy rings. Apart from the umbo, the tan cap quickly dries to pale buff. This species has thick, widely-spaced, cream gills and a charact...

In the litter of wet native forests. The velvety caps of this species are orange to red-brown and the gills white. Very characteristic is the tough two-toned stem (white at the top gradually darkening to red-brown at the base). Like all Marasmius species it ca...

(Synonym Omphalina chromacea) Associated with a mat of green algae on the ground or amongst bryophytes in native forests. This small bright yellow species has a centrally depressed moist-looking cap with a wavy and grooved margin. Yellow gills run part-way dow...

On the ground in eucalypt forests and plantations. This robust fleshy species has a purple cap and a stout stem which is purple and white. The gills are white and often forked and interconnected. A distinctive feature for the genus Leucopaxillus is the inrolle...