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Order HelotialesObserver
damontigheDescription
under burned conifer log with lots of moist aspen leaves with the mycelium running through them. cups fruiting off the duff not the wood.
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Genus HymenoscyphusObserver
jan_thornhillDescription
JET46 rotting wet coniferous wood iki + butterscotch
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Neolecta vitellinaObserver
jan_thornhillDescription
JET39 deep sphagnum under fir
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lesliejoanDescription
The moss is in the genus Dicranum (ID'd) by Jennifer Doubt, curator from the Canadian Museum of Nature)
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Genus ConicomycesObserver
fungikingdomqcDescription
•Growing on a large trunk of decaying Fagus grandifolia.
•Synnemata 0.6 to 1mm high
•Conidia (exclusive of the appendage): 109.47-132.3 x 4.39-5.02 microns
•Appendages: 49.64-62.73 x 1.22- 1.82 microns
Microscopy done in water
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Tricholoma aurantiumObserver
jonathan_mackDescription
smell strong, farinaceous
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Pinkmottle Woodwax (Hygrophorus russula)Observer
jonathan_mackDescription
with Beech and Oaks
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Clavaria rubicundulaObserver
jonathan_mackDescription
maybe? with Oaks and Hickories, about two time larger than the adjacent Clavaria zoolingeri
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Gloiodon strigosusObserver
lesliejoanDescription
on a decaying and wet deciduous log, near a stream/ cap up to 1.9 cm wide, spore print: brown/ added photos of younger fungi
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Velvet Tooth (Hydnellum spongiosipes)Observer
lesliejoanDescription
several on the ground near red oak trees, 5.5 cm wide, spore print: clay-buff, surface turns black with KOH, as it dried the edge and the teeth turned dark brown, microscopy
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david_chapadosDescription
Asques inamyloïdes, 68,9-83,3 x 8,3-8,4um.
Spores ellipsoïdes, 12,0-13,6 x 4,6-5,2um.
Pore apical 2,9-3,7 x 1,9-2,3um.
Document consulté :
Réblová, Martina & Miller, Andrew & Réblová, K. & Štěpánek, Václav. (2017). Phylogenetic classification and generic delineation of Calyptosphaeria gen. nov., Lentomitella , Spadicoides and Torrentispora ( Sordariomycetes ). Studies in Mycology. 89. 10.1016/j.simyco.2017.11.004.
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Midnight Goblet (Donadinia nigrella)Observer
mycosystemaPlace
Parc national de la Jacques-Cartier, 103 Chem. du Parc National, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, QC G3C 2T5, Canada (Google, OSM)Description
MRD0087
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Stromatinia rapulumObserver
aldendirksDescription
Information on this species can be found in Ascomycete Fungi of North America on the species description page for Dumontinia tuberosa, which has a similar macro- and micromorphology as S. rapulum. S. rapulum is distinguished by arising from “a black stroma on buried blackened rhizomes, corms, and bulbs of monocotyledons.” Stromatinia rapulum is apparently rare or rarely collected and only has one representative rDNA sequence on GenBank, from a specimen collected in Norway in the 1990s.
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Image #3: Biggutulate, ellipsoid ascospores.
Image #5: The spores are biguttulate and ellipsoid
Image #6: Excipular hyphae
Image #7: This is the juncture between the excipulum and the interior hyphae of the apothecium.
Image #10: (1000x magnification) Compare to the next image, showing the effects of adding Melzer’s reagent.
Image #11: The ring of the inoperculate asci is amyloid in Melzer’s reagent (1000x magnification). This photo is the same frame as the previous. Notice how the ascospores lose their guttules and the spores and asci shrink in size, indicating the importance of measuring fungal structures in the living state
Image #12: The ring of the inoperculate asci is amyloid in Melzer’s reagent (1000x magnification)
Image #24: The fruiting bodies were growing from the blackened rhizomes of Polygonatum sp. (Solomon’s seal)
Image #25: The fruiting bodies were growing from the blackened rhizomes of Polygonatum sp. (Solomon’s seal)
Image #27: Cross section of fruiting body at 20x magnification (dissection scope)
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Additional sequences:
ITS: GenBank MW464415
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Apr. 27, 2019.
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Phaeopezia apiculataObserver
jan_thornhillDescription
In a usually wettish area in hardwoods, roots, rotting wood and soil. Microscopy. Vouchered.
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Coprotus baeosporusObserver
sigridjakobDescription
In incubated deer dung, spores 7-8.5 x 3.5-4.5 microns
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rambryumDescription
Growing on Racomitrium heterostichum on granitic boulder on edge of disused resource road.
(a) Showing habitat on boulder with necrotic patches of Racomitrium heterostichum. (2) Habit showing numerous rimmed apothecia. (3) Detail of habit showing appothecia emergent from stems of Racomitrium heterostichum. (d) Showin g closeup of apothecia. (e) Section of apothecia showing hymenium and single emergent ascus. (f) Ascus with 8 elongate ascospores. (g) Empty ascus. (h) Spores in detail, measuring ~ 20um x 3 um.
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Trentepohlia umbrinaObserver
lesliejoanDescription
A guess--perhaps a species of lichen? Provided by G.Vogg
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Eyelash Cups (Genus Scutellinia)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Biggest cup ever seen: 1 cm in diameter. Hairs are 1.5mm. On soil, among moss. Color is really a deep orange with some red in it. It has few pairs of setae inside a 'wing'/sheath. Rooting is narrow, from 1-2 'legs' on marginal setae; up to 4 on excipulum setae. Spores are all round.
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david_chapadosDescription
Growing on rotting deciduous wood, Quebec, Canada.
Conidia shooting from the conidiophores, 40,6-46,7 x 5,2-5,6um.
Conidiophore 205,8-219,6 x 7,7-8,3um.
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
kevinwallaceDescription
On stump in sugar maple forest
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Truffles (Genus Tuber)Observer
fungikingdomqcDescription
Under Hemlock, no specific odor
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Genus HymenoscyphusObserver
fennermartinDescription
On acorn shells (Quercus alba) Largest disc approximately 4-5mm
micrographs in MLZ, IKI, and H2O
Ascospores irregularly fusiform, mostly with one septa
14.5-22.2 x 6-9
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Groundsel Crown Rust (Puccinia lagenophorae)Observer
andrewcannonDescription
On Senecio vulgaris
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fungikingdomqcDescription
-On decorticated wood
Synnemata about 1 to 2mm high
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Ascomycete Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)Observer
zitsermDescription
This fungus infects Box elder (Acer negundo) and turns the twigs white, killing them. Sometimes the fungus looks like broken up black circles (see photo 1), a bit like cheetah spots, and sometimes it looks like complete circles. I have seen similar Box elder twigs with this fungus, where part of the pale twig was an orangish pink hue.
After letting the twig sit in a moisture chamber, pinkish goo started to ooze out of the black circles. I believe this is an anamorph of some Ascomycete. A photo of the conidia at 1000x is shown. The spores are elliptical / pill shaped and have numerous round guttules in them.
Previous observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200536858
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/196420044
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194669917
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/157445322
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151691625
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151691465
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148312162
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144672964
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110823238
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110170481
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Fungi Including Lichens (Kingdom Fungi)Observer
lesliejoanDescription
on a dead maple branch
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Exidia pithyaObserver
lesliejoanDescription
on a standing (actually, leaning) dead pinus strobus
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ethancrensonDescription
Spores brown, 7-9 septa, swollen supramedian cell, 28-34 (44) x 8-10µm. This fragment of hardwood was also inhabited by Hysterobrevium mori.
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Daleomyces petersiiObserver
shanzeyoellDescription
Flakier exterior make me suspect Peziza praetervisa/Daleomyces petersii, will check again in a few days to see how fruiting bodies develop
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Ascomycete Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Growing on Pinus rigidus needles that fell down in a swampy area. Pine Barrens. Biggest cup was 5mm in diameter, and very thin, like a flat lentil. Asci 98-123 x 7.4-9.8 um. Spores 11.1-14.8 x 4.9 um. Paraphyses show twisted, branched, curly and straight ends, around 2.4 um wide.
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Ascomycete Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)Observer
alison_pollackDescription
On leaf of California Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum)
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jan_thornhillDescription
Alder, in alder wetland. Vouchered. Third image shows before & after hydration.
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heelsplitterPlace
Andrews Bald, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Swain Co., North Carolina, USA (Google, OSM)Description
Growing on a curled Rhododendron catawbiense leaf. Ascocarps up to 0.7 mm wide; fringed with tufts of hairs; sessile. Ascocarps seated individually on small, white, membranous subicula. Not noticeably bioluminescent. Not noticeably fluorescent under UV light. Hair tufts composed of fascicles of smooth, hyaline hairs. Asci inoperculate and 8-spored with amyloid apical apparatuses. Spores hyaline, smooth and 3-septate. Spore measurements: (16) 17.1 – 20 (21.3) × (3) 3.2 – 3.8 (4.1) µm; Q = (4.4) 4.5 – 5.8 (6.2); N = 30; Me = 18.2 × 3.6 µm; Qe = 5.2
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Aug. 22, 2023.
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Yellow-green Russula Mold (Hypomyces luteovirens)Observer
jan_thornhillDescription
Mixed woods, white pine. Vouchered. JET230717_04
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ethancrensonDescription
Spores
4.0-5.6 x 1.3-2.0µm
Me 5.0 x 1.7µm
Q 2.5-3.8
MeQ 3
N=20
Asci IKI-
22 - 29 x 4.3-4.7µm
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Phaeohelotium paniObserver
ethancrensonDescription
Growing on Honey Locust seed pods.
Spores ellipsoid, tapering at the ends (roughly boat shaped), mostly without oil content: 7.8-10.3 x 3.2-4µm
Asci IKI-, with croziers, 66-74 x 5-6µm
Paraphyses branched, containing some refractive content. Occasionally roughened at the ends.
Hairs indicated by arrows in microphotos
Excipulum textura intricata.
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ethancrensonDescription
Apothecia smaller than 1mm in diameter growing on an old oak leaf.
Asci 4-spored, IKI+, clavate, 32-37 x 5.2-6.0µm
Spores fusiform, usually with one acute end and one rounded end, somewhat curved, 9.5-15.1 x 2.2-2.9µm
Paraphyses septate with oil content. Dextrinoid in Lugol's.
Excipulum textura globulosa / intricata.
...some of my photos in Phloxine (the pinkish ones) but most in water or Lugol's.
ID provided by H. O. Baral.
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Seticyphella niveolaObserver
lesliejoanDescription
on unidentifiable litter--probably very rotten leaf bits
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ethancrensonDescription
Growing on fruiting bodies of Trichoglossum farlowii in Beech-Maple-Hemlock woods
Soft, dark, crowded, hemispherical fruiting bodies. Asci are broadly clavate, 40-44 x 8.5-10.5µm. Spores are hyaline, fusiform with one end narrower than the other (like the sole of a shoe) 8.5-10.5 x 3-3.8µm.
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Murrill's Slender Caesar (Amanita murrilliana)Observer
lesliejoanDescription
in the sand and gravel beside a road/ three at different stages/ this one: cap 7.1 cm wide, stem narrower at apex 1.3 cm to 1.5 cm at base/ gills have a pinkish hue/ spore print: cream/ when fresh no odour, while drying ti, quite a strong & unpleasant odour/ spores: ellipsoid and unigutulate/ 9.8 - 10.8 x 6.1 - 6.4 microns
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Blue Polypore (Neoalbatrellus caeruleoporus)Observer
jonathan_mackDescription
in mature forest containing hemlock, full of temporary puddle during spring
I expected this species to be at this location, but I am happy to be able to confirm it
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Orange Cup (Melastiza cornubiensis)Observer
jonathan_mackDescription
on opening, on muddy sandy soil.
perithecia scattered, vivid orange, up to about 1cm. margin darker, composed of very small hairs (photo 9). Paraphyses clavate and filled with orange granules. Spores, covered with a very conspicuous and mostly complete net, do not appear warty. spores (in asci, and without ornamentation) measured 13-16 x 6-9 µm
all microphotograph stained with Cotton Blue
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Order PezizalesObserver
themycoevangelistDescription
Tiny stalked yellow cups!
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Genus IodophanusObserver
antonioezquerroDescription
Iodophanus "violaceoroseus", especie nueva. Especie afín a Iodophanus difformis, pero diferente en color y hábitat.
En Juncus sp.
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Rosy Pinkgill (Entoloma roseum)Observer
lynneoDescription
Salmon coloured spore print
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lynneoDescription
Strong pleasant odor when cut open somewhat like coconut
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Genus GloeotiniaObserver
corndogDescription
On Juncus seeds??
Lost material for microscopy
In fen, among mosses, often submerged in Sphagnum
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ethancrensonDescription
Spores yellow-brown/red-brown, mostly 6-septate, with swollen supramedian cell, 22.8-28.8 x 6.6-8µm. Slightly textured, punctate, maybe.
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Dingy Twiglet (Simocybe centunculus)Observer
lesliejoanDescription
up to 6 mm wide
