Cotter River, ACT
Identification history
| Russula 'purpureoflava group' | 15 Jun 2022 | Heino1 | ||
| Russula purpureoflava | 1 Jun 2022 | trevorpreston | ||
| Russula sp. (genus) | 26 May 2022 | Heino1 | ||
| Russula sp. (genus) | 26 May 2022 | trevorpreston | ||
| Unidentified | 25 May 2022 | trevorpreston |
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User's notes
Fungi caps about 10cm
2 comments
trevorpreston
wrote:
1 Jun 2022
Heino, could this be Russula purpureoflava? (p170 A field Guide to Australian Fungi by Bruce Fuhrer)
Heino1
wrote:
1 Jun 2022
It could be the species you suggest but there are some other macroscopically similar species. Fuhrer is a good book and another is A Field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi, by Genevieve Gates & David Ratkowsky. On page 142 of the latter you'll find Russula lenkunya pictured (and one technical monograph includes another couple of violaceous to reddish-purple species in Australia). There are several genera (Russula being one) where there are now a good number of sp. sightings and which I've been thinking of splitting, not necessarily into precise species (which may not be identifiable from only a photo) but into broad groups (e.g. we could have Russula ' purpureoflava group'). One thing with some Russulas is that the cap pigments 'run' in the rain. If you look at the Russula sp. sightings you will see some with colours washed out - and such sightings could still be a challenge to put into broad groups. Anyway, I'll do something with Russulas, perhaps in the next few days.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.857586-35.321473
- Altitude 744.0m
- Maps Lower Cotter Catchment
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 25 May 2022 04:16 PM Recorded on
- trevorpreston Recorded by
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Collections
Fungi Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like]
Species information
- Russula 'purpureoflava group' Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 744m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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