Small to medium agaric, growing on wood, with a white spore print. Pileus brick-red, dry. Lamellae widely spaced. Stipe lateral, absent or apical (pseudostipe). Partial veil remnants absent. Spores hyaline or pale, non-amyloid, smooth; germ pore absent. Cheilocystidia present. Lamellar trama regular or interwoven. Pileipellis a cutis or a trichoderm. Clamp connections present. Green pigment leaches out of lamellae fragments mounted in KOH on a slide, and can also be seen in microscopic mounts of pileus context hyphae.

There are no similar genera (especially in regard to the Australian species A. archeri). For distinguishing characters of other pleurotoid agarics (white-spored with stipe lateral or absent) see under Pleurotus.

Anthracophyllum Ces., Atti Acad. Sci. Fis. 8(3): 3 (1879).

One species: Anthracophyllum archeri. Australian records of several other species require confirmation.

Anthracophyllum archeri (Berk.) Pegler, Austral. J. Bot. 13: 324 (1965).

W.A., S.A. (Kangaroo Island only), Qld, N.S.W., Vic. and Tas. (and probably also N.T.).

In native forests.

On wood (usually fallen dead twigs).

Saprotrophic.

Bougher, N.L. (2009a), Fungi of the Perth region and beyond: a self-managed field book, Western Australian Naturalists' Club (Inc.), Perth. [Description and Illustration of A. archeri]

Bougher, N.L. & Syme, K. (1998), Fungi of Southern Australia. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands. [Description, Illustration and Microcharacters of A. archeri]

Fuhrer, B. (2005), A Field Guide to Australian Fungi. Bloomings Books, Hawthorn. [Description and Illustration of A. archeri]

Fuhrer, B. & Robinson, R. (1992), Rainforest Fungi of Tasmania and South-east Australia. CSIRO Press, East Melbourne. [Illustration of A. archeri]

Grey, P. & Grey, E. (2005), Fungi Down Under. Fungimap, South Yarra. [Description, Illustration and Map of A. archeri]

Griffiths, K. (1985), A Field Guide to the Larger Fungi of the Darling Scarp and South West of Western Australia. Published by the author. [Illustration of A. archeri]

Hood, I.A. (2003), An Introduction to Fungi on Wood in Queensland. University of New England, School of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources Management, Armidale. [Description and B&W Illustration of A. archeri]

McCann, I.R. (2003), Australian Fungi Illustrated. Macdown Productions, Vermont. [Illustration of A. archeri]

Pegler, D.N. & Young, T.W.K. (1989), The genus Anthracophyllum (Tricholomataceae Tribe Collybieae), Mycol. Res. 93: 352–362. [Description, B&W Illustration and Microcharacters of A. archeri, and Key to all species of the genus]

Segedin, B.P. (1994), Studies in the Agaricales of New Zealand: new records and new species of the genera Cheimonophyllum, Mniopetalum, and Anthracophyllum (Tricholomataceae, Collybieae), New Zealand J. Bot. 32: 61–72. [Description, B&W Illustration and Microcharacters of A. archeri from New Zealand]

Wood, A.E. (1983), Notes on Australian fungi, Sydowia 36: 326–330. [Description and Microcharacters of A. archeri]

Young, A.M. (2005b), A Field Guide to the Fungi of Australia. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney. [Description and Illustration of A. archeri]