''Morchella australiana'' is a species of ascomycete fungus in the family Morchellaceae. Species description, Described as new to science in 2014, it is found in New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Australia. The type locality (biology), type locality was in the temperate Pilliga Scrub of northwestern New South Wales, west of the Great Dividing Range. Ascocarp, Fruit bodies of the fungus resemble those of the European ''Morchella elata'', but molecular phylogenetics, molecular and morphology (biology), morphological analyses demonstrated that the Australian species represents a unique Lineage (evolution), lineage.

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* Edible fungi Fungi described in 2014 Fungi of Australia Morchella, australiana Taxa named by James Trappe {{Pezizomycetes-stub