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TEXAS!!! NEW DISCOVERY!

Texas, you can officially add the extremely elusive
Lysurus cruciatus, (Lizard’s Claw Stinkhorn), to the list of species found in Texas. To my knowledge the Lizard’s claw is rarely found or reported anywhere really and 0 documented in Texas. I stumbled upon these 2 specimens in a line of woods by a abandoned pasture in South Houston. I found them directly in a cow patty. Strangely they were within a few feet of two, also very rare, Cauliflower Mushrooms! I was quite amazed by them and decided to collect them to identify and low and behold they squirted black goo on my palm when I pulled them up. It was absolutely rancid. It was pretty much like something you would see in one of the Alien movies. I only just read about and identified what I found through a Reddit community & realized I needed to document this somewhere as it’s a first….

Pretty pretty cool fungus is all I can say. I literally thougt they were crab claws in a cow patty somehow at first

Hongo de color púrpura, uno de los tantos que se pueden ver del género Cortinarius, tiene un olor fuerte a naftalina, es de consistencia dura y firme, al cortar por la mitad se torna de color amarillento, fructifica en otoño.

rainbow sherbert Mycoacia? compare with RLC1264 (Observation 234171) & CoHo017 (Observation 276890)

Substrate: dead corticate citrus tree. same as RLC1469 (Observation 253051), RLC1281 (Observation 253034), RLC1385 (Observation 254030), RLC1407 (Observation 254032) and RLC1513 (Observation 254035)

Habitat: Northwest Andean montane forest (NT0145)

Collector(s): D. Newman & R. Vandegrift

Collection #: RLC1519

Photomicrography and molecular data forthcoming