Disciseda candida

Lyons, ACT

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Disciseda candida

17 Apr 2019

Heino1

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Heino1 wrote:

18 Apr 2019

In Photo 1 you see two fruit bodies, the one on the right having turned over so that the mouth (through which the spores are released) is facing up. By contrast, the fruit body on the left is still in the initial position and all you see is the soil case around what is presently the upper half of the fruit body and which will be the lower half, post-turnover. The black arrows in Photo 2 point to the fruit bodies shown in Photo 1 and the red arrows point out two more fruit bodies (with only the upper having turned over). In Photo 3 the two fruit bodies at the lower left were still in their initial positions, with their mouths facing down, as shown here. The fruit body at the upper left was also in the same position, but I have placed it here in the turned-over position. It’s mouth is not yet very well-developed. The two fruit bodies on the right are in the final, turned-over position as I found them in the field and have well-defined mouths. They still have much of their soil cases intact. The closer view in Photo 4 shows the roughly reticulate pattern found in the lower half of the post-turnover fruit body. The historical inset (courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library) shows the first published illustration of such a reticulation, from page 78 of Curtis Gates Lloyd’s Mycological Notes No. 8, published in 1901.

Pam wrote:

18 Apr 2019

Great set of images Heino - thank you. We don't seem to see these up our way. Are these common down your way? As when I first saw some outside Canberra and got excited the locals I was with almost rolled their eyes and said 'Oh those, we see them all the time'!!

Heino1 wrote:

18 Apr 2019

I am seeing the genus more and more (but often as old and eroded fruit bodies). We have at least two species within the city limits and I still have unidentified collections. For some years it was on my wish list and was very excited when I found my first! What is nice is that I have found them several times in both pre- and post-turnover states.

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