Chlorovibrissea bicolor

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This is a rare ascomycete found in fern gullies on wood and the remains of roots which are very wet or under water. The fruiting bodies are divided into a bright yellow, rounded, fertile head and a darker sterile stalk, the height of the whole fruiting body being only 1 or 2 cm.

• Fruiting body

  Divided into a fertile head and sterile stalk. Height of entire fruit-body 10-20 mm.

• Fertile surface

  Fertile head oval to lens-shaped, to 6mm, smooth, yolk-yellow to orange-yellow.

• Stipe/stem

  Cylindrical, white, grey-whitish to brown-blackish, 2-4 mm thick, sometimes slightly downy and dark scaled toward the base (blackish hairs).

• Smell

  Unknown

• Spores

  Spore print not known. Probably colourless

• Habitat

  Wet, shaded fern gullies or cool temperate rainforest? Often found on wood and remains of roots which are very wet or under water, in ditches or in small streams.

• References

  Bougher, N & Syme, K. Fungi of Southern Australia, pp

  Fuhrer, B. Field Companion to Australian Fungi p

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