Asci 100 x 20 µm. Ascospores hyaline, 11-13 septate, 30-50 x 5-7 µm.
Underside of dead palm tree.
Persistent subiculum brown, wooly. Ascospores with germ slit (some sigmoid) the length of the spore, (17)20-21 x 6.3-7 µm.
Upper hymenium bluish; paraphyses not separating in water. Thallus K+ yellow, C-
https://lichenportal.org/cnalh/taxa/index.php?taxon=53743&clid=1130
Chanterelle, Bukhansan National Park (북한산국립공원), Seoul, South Korea
Mixed chaparral. In rodent dig with loose cover of duff under Quercus berberidifolia.
Hypogeous gasteroid fungus, exterior yellow-gold. Interior white with maze-like folds. KOH-
Odor at first indistinct, later developing odor of rice after refrigeration for a couple days.
Asci balloon-shaped, 99 x 57 µm; variably 3- to 5-spored, popping when pressed on with cover slip. Ascospores hyaline, smooth hyaline, with spindly protrusions in developing ascus, egg-shaped to subglobose, 18-20 x 14-16 µm.
Chaparral. On Ribes indecorum
Ascoma erumpent perithecia with a central depression. Peridium brilliant orange pseudo-parenchyma. Asci thin-walled with many hundreds of spores. Ascoconidia allantoid, 3-3.8 μm.
Anamorph red orange, erumpent, often together with teleomorph.
On smoketree deadwood
On Cylindropuntia californica. Erumpent clear jelly that changed to brown/orange then black when dried and no longer jelly-like. Left black scars on the cactus. No other fungi present to suggest that it was parasitic on Stereum, Peniophora or else
HAY-F-002797
Microscopy (400X, 1,000X)
spores = x µm
asci = amyloid tipped in Melzers, x µm
Mixed chaparral, under scrub oak. Cap deep blue-black, velvety. Stipe lighter, smooth.
Under chamise; no scrub oak in the immediate vicinity.
Cap 1-1.8 cm, umbonate, deep chestnut color, velvety, scaly, rimose. Cortina attached to margins. Gills dull brown to rusty brown, adnate to 'toothed'. Stipe 2-3 x 0.2-0.3 cm, lighter than cap, scaly, snake skin pattern. Odor indistinct.
Spores rough, [9.4]9.6-10[10.4] x [4.3]4.5-5.4 µm
Chaparral, mixed scrub oak and chamise.
Cap metallic brown to vinaceous, rimose, plane, umbonate. Distinct vellipellis. Veil remnants on margin. Gills grayish brown. Stipe solid, equal, caulocystidia only on upper 1/3.
Odor farinaceous.
Spores gently nodulose, fat frog-shaped, 8.9-10.2[11.2] x [5.5]5.7-6.3 µm
Pleurocystidia apically encrusted, metuloid (1.2 µm thick), lageniform, 57 µm; some utriform, shorter.
Cheilocystidia lageniform, smooth apex, some apically encrusted.
Mixed chaparral. Under scrub oak.
Cap fibrillose, cream to light brown at center. Stipe pallid, caulocystidia along full length; bulbous emarginate; no bruising.
Apothecia immersed in wood of dead Adenostoma branches along W-exposed hillside. Coastal Artemisia, Adenostoma, Cneoridium scrub with Pinus torryana.
I'm not familiar with this genus, but it seems that P. viridis and P. versicolor can be variable in color.
Observation from same location:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/150888553
From general vicinity:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/150316889
Found in sandstone soil below mosses. First 2 pictures 40x, second 2 pictures 10x.
Incredible pink/purple colored russula
substrate = Cercocarpus leaf
HAY-F-000335 ==> HAY-F-005101
substrate/habitat = fruiting beneath well rotten small Cupressus sargentii log with Arctostaphylos root running ~8 inches away. the same roote further up close to the the trunk of the Arctostaphylos had a similar mushroom fruiting
KOH = slight darkening of the cap
scent = none detected
UVF 365 nm = lite blue-green on gills
HAY-F-000437
On cow dung
Cow dung. Heads less than 1/2 mm wide
The beautiful Bakersfield countryside
On dead pine.
Reference:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2816966/
Fruiting in small groups in two adjacent hummocks from moss and liverworts, amongst Thelephora sp., under large Adenostoma fasciculatum with Salvia mellifera and Xylococcus bicolor nearby and unidentified ferns. No distinct odor, mild taste
Scaly-fibrous zonate slightly hygrophanous (?) cap, squared/flat stipe, single fruitbody could not find others in the vicinity
Terrible picture, but light colored (white?) rat
Dr. Priscila Chaverri and her teaching assistant, Efraín Escudero-Leyva of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico, were the course’s resident ascomycetologists. As this initially resembled one of the green Hypocrea/Trichoderma spp., I passed it off to them, thinking light work would be made of the ID process. After some microscopy and reference checking, Efraín returns with the name Dactylospora, a (mostly) lichenicolous genus in the Lecanorales.
This is one of the most beautiful fungi I have ever seen, and I greatly look forward to discovering the rest of its name.
UPDATE 8/28/16: Believed to be a member of the genus Abrothallus by multiple members of the “Ascomycetes of the World” Facebook group. Name updated accordingly.
Substrate: unk. foliose lichen (Observation 249900)
Habitat: Costa Rican Páramo
Ecoregion: Talamanca Montane Forests (NA0167)
Collector(s): D. Newman
Collection #: n/a
Collected for the 2016 Organization for Tropical Studies “Fungi and Fungus-Like Organisms” Course
Desert Tortoise Natural Area
Second of two seen but suspect there were more
Observation is for the white one on the lower left
Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California
Ventura Harbor Ecological Reserve
Curious about the pinkish lichen that is cone shaped
Sequoia National Forest, Kern County, California
North facing slope cut on soil
It’s Mayor Max, the mayor of Idyllwild! Not just any domestic dog. He is cute and a good boy.
Mojave monardella from Saddleback Butte State Park, Los Angeles County, California