When: 2011-05-30
Collection location: Cunningham’s Gap., Queensland, Australia [Click for map]
25.0°S 153.0°E [Click for map]
Who: Roy Halling (royh)
Notes:
Uncovered from beneath leaf litter along trail bank in rainforest with Lophostemon dominant.
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| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 5.20 | 1 | (royh) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
2.52 | 83.87% | |||||||
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of the peridium suggested at first sight that it was a taxon of an austral Chamonixia (=Rosbeeva Lebel & Orihara in ed.). This latter was out in force during late May, early June in SE Queensland. However, the gleba was wrong and the spores were definitely not of those genera.
Bougher & Castellano, who described the genus, suggested it was allied to Heimiella (=Heimioporus). I’m in the process of getting some DNA out to see where that points. Thanks!
It looks externally rather like Chamonixia, but those big pockets in the spore mass, etc. are different – but I wonder if it won’t show up as a close relative with rather tweaked morphology.