Cyathus stercoreus

Bird's nest fungus at Illilanga & Baroona

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Identification history

Cyathus stercoreus	17 Mar 2020	Heino1
Cyathus sp.	13 Mar 2020	KenT
Unidentified	12 Mar 2020	Illilanga

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4 comments

KenT wrote:

12 Mar 2020

I suspect these are immature birds nest fungi, unfortunately we need mature fruit bodies to take the identification to genus.

Illilanga wrote:

12 Mar 2020

Happy to go back and check. I will post a separate sighting to confirm.

Illilanga wrote:

13 Mar 2020

Ken, I have uploaded a sighting with one maturing fruit body. See sighting 4252755. I didn't check for funiculus... I only read the CNM overview about birds nest fungi after I got back! Sandra

KenT wrote:

13 Mar 2020

Thanks Sandra, the additional images of this in your additional sighting certainly help with the identification. I will leave it to Heino to confirm as he knows these better than me and may be able to take it to species.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.157433 -35.776620
Altitude 804.4m
Maps Illilanga & Baroona
Places Michelago, NSW

Sighting information

4 - 15 Abundance
9 Mar 2020 12:08 PM Recorded on
Illilanga Recorded by
Collections
Illilanga Completed Fungi Cup with one or more 'eggs' inside [birds nest fungi and cannonball fungus] Disk-like to cup-like

Species information

Cyathus stercoreus Scientific name
Bird's nest fungus Common name
Not Sensitive
Cosmopolitan
Non-invasive or negligible
538.8m to 804.4m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning

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