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Curry Punk

Piptoporus australiensis

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 40, February 65, March 74, April 68, May 36, June 23, July 12, August 1, September 3, October 4, November 15, December 22.
Australia363
Western Australia123
Victoria122
New South Wales82
Queensland28
Tasmania6
South Australia2

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Shelf fungus formDescends from a fungal lineage whose members are commonly shelf or bracket fungi.Inferred from its group
  • Grows on woodDescends from a fungal lineage whose members commonly grow on wood.Inferred from its group
  • Saprotrophic fungusDescends from a fungal lineage whose members commonly decompose dead organic matter.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomFungi Including Lichens · Fungi
PhylumBasidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
ClassMushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
OrderShelf Fungi · Polyporales
FamilyBracket Polypores · Fomitopsidaceae
GenusFomitopsis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Curry Punk with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.