Pebbly Beach revisited

After our walk from Pebbly Beach towards Shipwreck Creek some difficulty arose in identifying a fungus found at our turning point.  So I did the walk again to get some further and better photographs.

The first photograph shows the land form: a shallow and gently sloping gully.  It gets gradually steeper and about 50 m behind where I am standing drops over a low cliff into the ocean.

The next two images show some of the colonies of the orange fungus.  They were spread fairly evenly over about 60 m of the gully.  The ground was burnt by the fire and is now carpeted with fallen dead leaves.

 Some close ups of various colonies.  The key point is that none of the images show the brown hairs diagnostic of Anthracobia muelleri, one of the posible IDs,

 I measured some of the individual fruiting bodies and they appeared far smaller than the sizes cited in Fungi of Tasmania for Aleuria aurantia.

 Walking back a few other fungi were seen.

 Placing my mirror under the disc shows this to be a polypore rather than a gilled fungus.

This one has gills, and the colour of the gills (revealed after unfortunately knocking one of the bodies) suggests field mushroom.  That wasn't a guarantee of non-toxicity so I left them in peace,

 An artistically burnt stump.

 On this foray I remembered to take a photograph of the Xanthorrhoea minor growing in the heath.

 There were quite a few yellow-winged grasshoppers around in the heath.  (A pleasant change from the myriads of mosquitoes in the woodland.)