Basidiomycetes is a very large group of fungi. It includes the familiar mushrooms, puff balls, stinkhorns, jelly fungi, smuts, rusts and some yeasts.

This species list has been generated from the Atlas of Living Australia – Locations: Explore your Area. [Extraction date: 25/07/2012. See Copyright Details and Disclaimer page for details.]

We've also added to it species that we have photographed in the park.

This list is not complete and is subject to change.

Coral fungi have erect, club-shaped or branched (coral-like) fruiting bodies. These beautiful fungi usually grow on the ground or decaying wood.

• Coral Fungi
  

The fruiting bodies of these fungi are in two layers. The outer layer splits and curls back into a star-shape, revealing a central puff ball.

• Earth Stars
  

These soft fungi look like your typical "mushroom", but on their underside they have pores instead of gills. They are a favourite food of many insects and native mammals.

• Fleshy-pored Fungi
  

These are the familiar kind of "mushroom"-shaped fungi with a gilled cap on a stem. Most gilled fungi species are referred to as Agarics, as they belong to the fungal order Agaricales.

• Gilled Fungi
  

These fungi are very soft with a rubbery or jelly-like texture. They come in a variety of shapes and colours. Most grow on wood.

• Jelly Fungi
  

These thin, leathery fungi may look like crusts, brackets or even have a delicate wine-glass shape. They are usually found on decaying wood.

• Leathery Fungi
  

These tough leathery to woody fungi don't have gills, but have pores. A few look like a mushroom with a cap, but many grow as shelves or brackets.

• Polypores
  

Puff Balls don't have gills or pores, but produce their spores internally. When the spores are ripe and the fruiting body is disturbed, the spores are "puffed" out into the air.

• Puff Balls
  

Stinkhorns come in a variety of strange shapes, but all of them produce a strong, unpleasant odour reminiscent of rotting meat or faeces.

• Stinkhorns