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Pseudohydnum gelatinosum (Scop. ex Fr.) Karst. |
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This is one of the most conspicuous jelly fungi, often occurring in dense clusters on fallen wood. Unlike the other jelly fungi it has soft, tooth-like projections on the underside, a common feature of the Hydnum fungi, but it is not closely related to them. Literally: gelatinous jelly-fungus. |
Up to 50 mm wide, often irregular in shape, thick and jelly-like in texture. Greyish-white to brown and nearly translucent. Surface moist to gelatinous and uneven. Undersurface white.
Pointed and conspicuous, transparent to white.
Short or absent, attached at one side. Same colour as pileus.
Spore print white.
Singly or in overlapping clusters on wood in wet forest.
Fuhrer, B. Field Companion to Australian Fungi p. 142 Fuhrer, B. and Robinson, R. Fungi of Tasmania and South-east Australia pp. 80-81.
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