Trametes coccinea (Scarlet Bracket)
Trametes coccinea fruit bodies are orange or reddish-orange and grow from wood, mostly dead wood. Usually, the fruit bodies are shelf-like outgrowths and so have distinct upper and lower surfaces. With age the upper surface may fade or even be bleached to white and you see a mix of bleached and unbleached fruit bodies in this photo: http://www.cpbr.gov.au/fungi/images-captions/pycnoporus-sp-0305.html. However, the underside keeps the orange colour. Viewed from above a fruit body often looks like a section of a circle that has been produced by making a straight cut parallel to, but well away from, the diameter and then gluing that whole flat edge to the wood. The fruit body may extend several centimetres out from the wood and, at the attached edge, may be many centimetres long (and up to a centimetre or so thick). The fruit body has a corky texture and the upper surface is smooth to finely velvety whereas on the underside there are tiny pores, up to 8 per millimetre. In this photo (http://www.cpbr.gov.au/fungi/images-captions/pycnoporus-sp-0116.html) you see a close-up view of an underside of a fruit body.
Fabisporus sanguineus fruit bodies have the same orange colour but (1) the fruit bodies are thinner, up to about 5 millimetres and (2) have a narrow attachment to the wood, very stem-like in appearance.
Both species are found in many countries, Trametes coccinea at various locations in or bordering the Indian or Pacific Oceans and Pycnoporus sanguineus more widespread but generally in tropical or sub-tropical regions.
Trametes coccinea is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Southern Highlands | Albury, Wodonga | South Coast | Greater Sydney | Hunter Region | New South Wales North Coast | Hume | Gippsland | Greater Brisbane | Wide Bay | South West Western Australia
Species information
- Trametes coccinea Scientific name
- Scarlet Bracket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 898.53m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Synonyms
Pycnoporus coccineus Pycnoporus coccineus
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Maps
Albury Bowna Reserve Bundanoon Bungonia National Park Dharawal National Park Eastern Hill Reserve Goulburn Mulwaree Council Gulaga National Park Gungahlin Pond Hall Horse Paddocks Hughes Grassy Woodland Monument Hill and Roper Street Corridor Morton National Park Morton National Park Mount Gray Recreation Reserve, Goulburn Nail Can Hill Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek Red Light Hill Reserve Sth Tablelands Ecosystem Park Wingecarribee Local Government Area Wodonga Wodonga Bushland Reserve WREN Reserves -
Places
Albury, NSW Bombay, NSW Bundanoon, NSW Bungonia, NSW Captains Flat, NSW East Albury, NSW Evans Head, NSW Hall, ACT Hughes, ACT Mount Annan, NSW Nicholls, ACT Porters Creek, NSW Springdale Heights, NSW Surf Beach, NSW Table Top, NSW Tilba Tilba, NSW Wedderburn, NSW Wodonga, VIC
