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 ...

On branches of Myrtle Beech in cool temperate rainforests. The yellow-orange fruit-body of this fungus has a unique globular shape. It grows in bunches around galls formed by the fungus. When young, it looks like a tiny washed-out orange, but as it matures the...

In high altitude grasslands and woodlands, and elsewhere in rich soils. Bright red arms on a hollow stem burst from an egg. Each arm splits into two at the tip. The slimy spore mass is concentrated on the disc at the top of the stem. The smell is like rotting ...

In sandy soils of Australian deserts. This is a small, rare, stalked puffball whose distinctive feature is the irregular splitting of the sandy-coloured spore sac. This sac peels back like petals on a flower to expose the brown spore mass. Most of the stem rem...