Colus hirudinosus group includes Colus pusillus On the ground, in grass and forest litter. The reddish arms burst from a gelatinous egg to form a basket, like a craypot. The arms, attached to a stem, divide at the top and link together to create meshes. These ...

On the ground, in wet forests of Tasmania. Unlike other more bizarre stinkhorns, Bunyip Egg is just a white egg-shaped structure. This is attached at the base by a thin thread to the purple volva (basal cup) formed from remains of the outer egg. When the volva...

Only found on old Hairpin Banksia cones. These small blue-grey discs are smooth and slightly concave with a short stem. The discs grow in groups between the seed capsules. When conditions are dry, the disc curls inward and shrivels to look like a pale grey kno...

On rotting wood in wet forests. The discs of this small clustered species are pink to pale purple and have a firm jelly-like texture. There may be a rudimentary stem. Smooth, pale purple clubs often growing with the discs are an asexual stage of the fungus. Ge...

(Synonym Hypocreopsis sp. ‘Nyora’) On dead and living branches of tea-tree, paperbark and banksia in long-unburnt coastal stands in Victoria. This firm-textured, brown, irregularly shaped species forms a raised mass which clasps dead branches with ...