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BCTbluebucket wrote:

34 min ago

sorry — I'll put up another photo later this afternoon. I didn't know what to categorise it as really, but I've seen it here before: Like an eruption of wetted crystals.

Unverified Other fungus

Heinol wrote:

1 hr ago

Unfortunately I can't see enough detail to tell if this is fungal or not.

Unverified Other fungus

Heinol wrote:

1 hr ago

This is one of the Rosellinia species with a well-developed and persistent subiculum. The subiculum is a mat-like growth of brown fungal hyphae on the surface of the wood and asexual spores are produced on the subicular hyphae. The subiculum develops first and later the more-or-less globose perithecia (each within a dark, blackish-brown shell) push out through the subiculum and sexual spores are produced in the perithecia. In some species of Rosellinia the subiculum is present only in young material and disappears (or at best becomes very scanty) as the perithecia mature.

Rosellinia sp.

AndyRoo wrote:

2 hrs ago

Cool!

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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

3 hrs ago

Senior botanist Trevor Whiffin in 1990 in the Flora of Au vol. 18 page 248, wrote:
"
A very variable species, even within Australia.
Variation can be seen in the size, shape and density of the scales on the hypanthium, the size and shape of the calyx lobes and of the floral bracts, and the size and general pubescence of the leaves.

Some of these characters are used to distinguish species within the genus.

_Melastoma malabathricum_ is generally distinguished by the large floral bracts.
Despite the variation within _M. affine_, it does remain distinct from _M. malabathricum_.

Some plants within Australia, which have their hypanthium densely covered with slightly longer scales, approach _M. lanuginosum_ Blume, but appear to remain distinct.

A thorough revision of these and other related species throughout their range is needed to fully settle the species limits.
".
→ https://www.dcceew.gov.au/science-research/abrs/publications/flora-of-australia/vol18
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My reading of all this information suggests too, that Trevor Whiffin's then 1990 point of view may have become out of date.

I may still lack further information on this topic hence incorrect in my point of view.

Indeed as Trevor Whiffin wrote in 1990 and does remain so correct on this point, I share in my own humble point of view:

we all require the information of a thorough revision of these plants' taxa throughout each of their respective global ranges .

Melastoma affine