These are photos of dried herbarium specimens. However, these fruitbodies looked virtually the same when they were collected. In the first photo you see several mature fruitbodies, one upside down showing the densely encrusted soil/debris that is bound to the underside. The second shows a close view of the fibrillose peristome. In the third you see the spore sac atop a short stalk and also the dense layer of pale calcium oxalate crystals over the surface of the spore sac. The fruitbodies in the fourth photo are in the process of opening out to create the star-like bases. The fruitbodies formed beneath a layer of debris below some Casuarinas.
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