Fuligo septica

Scrambled egg slime at Mount Clear, ACT

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Identification history

Fuligo septica	10 Mar 2015	MichaelMulvaney
Fuligo septica	10 Mar 2015	Heino
Unidentified	11 Sep 2014	jeremyahagan

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User's notes

Yellow fungus seen on Sentry Box Mountain

2 comments

Heino wrote:

15 Sep 2014

This is an example of a slime mould, or myxomycete to use the technical term. Despite the word mould in the vernacular name, myxomycetes or a class of organisms distinct from fungi.

MichaelBedingfield wrote:

10 Mar 2015

Hi Heino. With this species clarification, should I get red of Myxomycetes sp. from the data base?

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Location information

Coordinates 148.919414 -35.823378
Altitude 1484.0m
Maps Namadgi National Park
Places Mount Clear, ACT

Sighting information

At least 1 Abundance
26 Feb 2011 10:40 AM Recorded on
jeremyahagan Recorded by
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Slime Moulds jeremyahagan Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Species information

Fuligo septica Scientific name
Scrambled egg slime Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1483.99m Recorded at altitude
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