On herbivore dung. The small, flattened, button-like discs are white, grey or pale fawn. On the top are minute but distinctive dark holes (ostioles) through which spores are expelled. The dry, hard disc has a tapering base embedded in the dung. Generously spon...

On dead and rotten wood in the wet tropics in Queensland. This bright pink, stalked cup bristles with long pale hairs. These grow on the outside of the cup, and create a very distinctive fringe around the margin. The stem is pale pink and hairy. Generously spo...

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...