
Amauroderma rude
Something you can easily miss or trip over ! These are striking mushrooms with flat firm brown discs for caps. This mushroom's cap was about 7" wide, had bluish concentric rings and the margin was pale and thick. The under surface looked chalky white with small pores (inset). The stipe was central and a greenish-brown. A twig can be seen enveloped by the cap.
Seen on the forest floor - mixed natives.

''Amauroderma rude'' is a tough woody mushroom in the family Ganodermataceae. A polypore fungus, it is found in Eastern Australia, where it grows as a saprophyte on rotting, buried wood.