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Weeping brackets (Ryvardenia campyla)
These thin brackets form on large eucalyptus in tall rainforest. They produce copious amounts of moisture which drips as a clear colourless liquid from the pore surface. The top is usually wrinkled, rippled tones of pale tan and grey.
Lignicolous Fungi; Description: Basidiomata annual, sometimes solitary but more usually compound, composed of many (up to 28) overlapping pilei, often forming a rosette, fleshy cartilaginous, brittle and easily snapped when young, attached by a common, broad lateral base. Pilei fan-shaped or spatulate, 15–25 mm wide, 1–5 mm thick, often merging laterally. Pileus surface delicately tomentose, white to cream, margin reddish brown, lobed. Pore surface plane, with a sterile border up to 2 mm wide,.. more
Similar species: Polyporales
By Mark Ridgway
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Uploaded Mar 1, 2016. Captured May 21, 2013 23:41 in Hillclimb Track, Sherbrooke VIC 3789, Australia.
