Found in gardens on mulch and in grassy areas, it resembles a red star-shaped structure covered in brownish slime on a white stalk.

[1][2] The first native Australian fungus to be formally described, Aseroe rubra was collected in 1792 in southern Tasmania and named by the French botanist Jacques Labillardière.

It matures into a reddish star-shaped structure with six to ten arms up to 4 cm (1+1⁄2 in) long radiating from the central area.

[6] This fairly common fungus is widely distributed in Australia from southeastern Queensland through New South Wales and eastern Victoria and Tasmania.

and salmon pink to reddish-orange unbranched arms or tentacles, has been reported from the Western Ghats, Kerala, India.