Gymnopilus pampeanus (Speg.) Singer Lilloa 22: 561 (1951)

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Gymnopilus pampeanus (Gymnos [Gr.] -naked; pilos [Gr.] - cap; possibly from pampineus [L.] consisting of tendrils.) Forms spectacular golden-brown clumps at the bases of tree stumps. The clumps are like small bread rolls at first, expanding to almost dinner-plate size.

• Pileus/cap

  6.5-15cm diameter. Golden, tawny brown. Fibrillose with small, scaly patches. Convex becoming flattened. Margin inturned, often irregular when old. Flesh: thick, light tan.

• Lamellae/gills

  Yellow becoming brown. Adnate to sinuate. Crowded. Thin.

• Stipe/stem

  4-11cm. Same colour as pileus. Stout, often curved and swollen at base. Fibrillose, striate, somewhat scaly below the fibres left by cortina..

• Ring

  Cortina high on the stem. With age, this becomes a few fibres dusted with rusty spores.

• Spores

  Spore print rusty brown.

• Habitat

  Densely caespitose (growing in dense clumps) at the bases of pine and Eucalyptus stumps, Also on a range of other trees.

• References

  Fuhrer, B. Field Companion to Australian Fungi p. 45

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