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Ten Australian Ramaria Fungi

Ramaria fungi are coral-like mushrooms with multiple branches. Their spores are ochre-yellow to brown-tinted and are ornamented with warts, striations or spines.   Of probably 100 Australian Ramaria species, only nineteen have published scientific descriptions.

Currently. FungiOzapp includes 17 Australian Ramarias, most of which are unidentified. 


Ramaria are very difficult to differentiate  according to their observable and even their microscopic  features. 
Identification is made even harder because the structure, colour  spore sizes and shapes of  some species change  as they mature.

Important observable features include
colour details, the shapes of the apices and branch axils, the texture of branches and whether or not there are  rizomorphs  or aborted branches that have not developed.  Many herbarium samples do not include records of such characteristics which makes identification harder.  A detailed recording sheet for describing Ramaria species can be found here.

For all these reason, the tentative nature of identifications for the Australian Ramarias below is expressed by the question marks after suggested names.

Ramaria botrytoides ?
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 This coral fungi is a pretty close match to Young's description of  Ramaria botrytoides on the Queensland Mycological Society's website.

The multiply divided branches of Ramaria botrytoides
arise from a white base and are white to pale pink, slender and sinuous.  



Picture of branch striations of  Ramaria BotroytoidesAborted branches and branch striations of Ramaria Botroytoides
The photo  above shows the fungi's pale stem stems which are longitudinally striated.  At the bottom left several aborted branches can be seen. 


Picture of Rounded apices of Ramaria Botroytoides
Rounded apices of Ramaria Botroytoides
As with Ramaria botroytoides, the apices are rounded, bright pink and divided in two but have the beginning of what in that species will develop into elongated branches.

Their axils (branch divisions) are acutely v shaped often with a line  extending down from the V base.
  This differs from Young's description of round axils. However, his photo shows v shape axils in the young specimen and round axils  in the older fungi.
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Ramaria Lorithamnus ?
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This Australian Ramaria fungi  grows in small clumps to 75mm  tall.   Both the branches and apices are buttery yellow and the branches are  vertical but sinuous and tallish before dividing dichotomosly with rounded axils.

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Australian shrub-like Ramaria with bright yellow tips
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This  low lying, shrub-like Australian Ramaria was about 12 cm wide.   It is a densly compact species with multiple  orange branchings and bright yellow  apices.

The angles of both the branch axils  and the apices were acute.
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Pale Apricot Australian Ramaria
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The whole of this ramaria was apricot coloured with a slightly lighter, thick stem. It was about 15 cm high and 10 wide and was growing in narrow peppermint gum bushland.

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This Australian Ramaria fungi has striated branches with round axils and cuspidate  apices that become flat on maturity.

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This close-up shows multiple aborted branches and a  stem with a rather rough surface.

Yellow Australian Ramaria
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This pale yellow Ramaria has  sinuous, open coralloid branches  diverging from a sinuous stem with a white base without aborted branches.

 The branch surfaces are smooth and semi-transparent.
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The above photo shows the apices to be pointed with a slightly darker centre.

Specimen found in t-tree bushland in late winter.

Ramaria Australiana?
Picture of Ramaria Australiana
Ramaria Australiana ?
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Some features of this Australian Ramaria  match those described by young for one of the three Ramaria Australiana  species.   Several aborted branches are evident  in the darkest section of the stem  and the rough stem matches Young's description.

Picture of the Rounded axils of Ramaria  AustralianaRounded axils of Ramaria Australiana
Young also described rounded axils as shown in the above photo.

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Young describes the apices of Ramaria Australiana as bluntly cuspidate  and whether this coral fungi fits that description is unclear.

Australian Ramaria  with intense pink, cuspidate  apices

Picture of an Australian pink Ramaria
Intense pink ramaria with white flesh
 The above photo shows this vivid pink Australian Ramaria to have white flesh and mostly acute, v shaped axils.    It was found growing on the floor of Narrow  Peppermint Gum woodland.
Cuspidate apices
Cuspidate apices
The branch apices are cuspidate meaning they  have multiple rounded bumps like chewing teeth.


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