Fungi
Disk-like to cup-like

Disk-like to cup-like

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The feature common to the fungi in this group is the disk-like to cup-like component of the fruitbody. They are divided into the following sub-groups (and you will find more about them in the respective sub-group overviews.):

 

1... The fruitbody consist of a cup (from a couple of millimetres to a centimetre or  so in diameter) within which you initially find one or more ‘eggs’. Over time the eggs are ejected. Most of these ‘egg’ fungi belong to what are known colloquially as Birds nest fungi (the odd one out being the Cannonball fungus).

 

2... The fruitbody never has any ‘eggs’. The disk-like to cup-like structure may sit atop a stem or be stemless and the disks/cups range from under a millimetre to 10 or so centimetres in diameter.

 

Warning

If you have a leathery, downward facing cup on wood, check Stereum (in https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Categories/Guide/1717) - especially if the outer surface of the cup is furry or hairy.

 

 

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Disk-like to cup-like

Cup with one or more 'eggs' inside [birds nest fungi and cannonball fungus]
Cups or disks - with no 'eggs'

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Heinol wrote:
3 Jul 2025
Along the margin of each tiny, orange apothecium there are well-spaced light brown hairs, which are thick-walled, septate and forked at their bases. On the right of the second image you see two such hairs, each about a fifth of a millimetre long. On the left of the second image you see a number of colourless, spore-filled asci and also numerous paraphyses, amongst which the asci nestle. The paraphyses are coloured, septate and swollen at their apices (up to about 10 micrometres wide). Species of Cheilymenia are mostly found on dung. These were growing on soil, amongst moss (mostly Funaria hygrometrica) in an area that had been burnt last year. In that same spot was the Pholiota that appears at Pholiota sp. (where I include a photo of the moss bed and immediate surrounds).
Cheilymenia spp.
LisaH wrote:
1 Jul 2025
Thank you!
Phaeohelotium (Discinella terrestris aggregate)
Teresa wrote:
1 Jul 2025
Not sure about these but maybe Phaeohelotium spp - earth buttons
Phaeohelotium (Discinella terrestris aggregate)
Heinol wrote:
25 Jun 2025
A very nice find! You can read about the species here: https://barwon-south-west.naturemapr.org/species/12452.
Sphaerobolus stellatus
Teresa wrote:
18 Jun 2025
Phaeohelotium spp.
Phaeohelotium (Discinella terrestris aggregate)

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