The only captive population in the world, meant to carry on the species if its only wild population in the world collapses.
I counted exactly 20 plants in a small area near the edge this clayey forest.
Growing on the skull of a whale.
ID based on dense thoracic punctures. On mouse-eared hawkweed.
On a broken branch on the mossy ground in a mixed forest.
Anamorphic fungi. Growing superficially, nothing inside the bark.
Conidia hyaline (white in mass), aseptate, uninucleate, cylindrical, guttulate OCI=5, measured
*(17.9) 18.4 - 20.9 (22.4) × (7.7) 7.8 - 8.5 (8.6) µm
Q = (2.1) 2.2 - 2.5 (2.7) ; N = 12
Me = 19.6 × 8.2 µm ; Qe = 2.4
On polytrichum juniperinum. @georgeg I have added more comprehensive photos. Also discovered the magic of the silent shutter to take the shake out of my spore photos
on a white pine log
Striped Coralroot (Corallorhiza striata), pink, Little Long Road Hwy 634, ON, June 16/22
Hooked sepals, Tombstone Range Lookout, gravel substrate, Tombstone Territorial Park, YT, July 15/23
@georgeg any thoughts welcome - I don't have any experience with this group and interested in opinions!
Asci 4-spored. Spores ellipsoid, ~23 um x 10um. Seems to key to the group Octospora gemmicola var. tetraspora, O. itzerottii, O. leucoloma var. tetraspora using this key:
http://www.octospora.de/pdf/key_main_groups.pdf
2 clumps along small sandy shore with Xanthium strumarium, Elymus virginicus, Lythrum salicaria, Apios americana, Salix exigua, Equisetum arvense, Agrostis stolonifera, and Bidens frondosa.
In a broadleaf forest on the ground black earthtongue.
With hairs.
Asci with 4 dark spores and 4 undeveloped.
Ascospores with 8-9 septa, measured
*(110.3) 112.7 - 122.5 (124.7) × (5) 5.7 - 6.7 (7.2) µm
Q = (15.9) 16.8 - 21.9 (22.4) ; N = 10
Me = 117.1 × 6.3 µm ; Qe = 18.7
This species was uncommon in Pinhey Forest but is now starting to pop up in newly created open areas from the felling of trees in a May 2022 windstorm and their subsequent removal.
In floodplain of Baddeck River. Ostrich Fern, Sensitive Fern and some Polystichum nearby.
White form is fairly abundant in this cove along Grand Lake
Growing in saturated organic muck soil along Dedrick's Creek. I really don't know what this could be, it has characteristics of both D. carthusiana and D. cristata but alot of photos of the hybrid don't quite look like this.
ascending, revolute, narrow lobes; diffuse, spreading soredia; branched rhizines
On 4 Balsam Fir and White Spruce trees in this area adjacent to/in swamp. Laminal and marginal soredia; soredia many per soralium; light/tan underside; rhizines extending close to margin; epruinose lobe tips; cortex K+ yellow, medulla C+ red. Currently appears to be the first record of the species for Nova Scotia.
First time seeing one with apothecia
White medulla, lower surface not tomentose
M.J. Oldham 28854b; specimen record, replicates at MICH, NHIC# 12011; identified by D.R. Farrar Nov. 2019 from specimen scan as "B. crenulatum (28854a; spaced pinnae; https://inaturalist.ca/observations/101534582) and B. yaaxudakeit (28854b; this observation; broad pinnae overlapping rachis)" (previously identified by M.J. Oldham as Botrychium lunaria); rocky Precambrian summit and adjacent fen; GPS waypoint 91; new to Ontario
M.J. Oldham 37879b; specimen record; replicates at ISC, NHIC# 11977; identified as B. tunux by D.R. Farrar Nov. 2019 from specimen scan ("the smaller stocky ones with rounded pinnae") (mixed collection with B. lunaria, 37879a, https://inaturalist.ca/observations/101043359); open, flat low, vegetated beach ridge near Hudson Bay coast; local; new to Ontario
On the ground small bright orange cup fungi with short brown hairs. Apothecia sessile, 2-4mm in diameter.
Ascospores subglobose with isolated warts.
ITS- 96% Scutellinia umbrorum, hyperborea, barlae.
Roughly 15m up mature sugar maple (top broke off in Fiona)
~14 thalli
avec @elacroix-carignan, @mcharpentier, @m-bibittes
Specimen: Léveillé-Bourret et al. 1989 (MT)
W.D. Bakowsky & M.J. Oldham specimen record, WDB 99-103, replicates at TRTE0005506; identified as Carex bicknellii by WDB and MJO; open rock barren slope with Rhus glabra and Carex sp.
Site revisit; plants healthy but very small population. Note: petiole scales light brown with dark central stripe vs. D. campyloptera which lacks the central stripe and is documented well east in Quebec and beyond
First eastern Canadian record, I believe. A European species established in the west from northern California to southern BC. Only other eastern North American occurrences I could find online are from Ohio (state level record given in BONAP) and eastern Maine in 2018 by @michael_oldham and Tony Reznicek (iNaturalist). Well established here over about 10m in seasonally flooded, mowed, roadside ditch.
both parent species (P. alba and P. tremuloides) abundant in area ; final couple of photos shows a "pure" P. alba colony in background
Specimen: Benoit Renaud 2021-VIII-24 (MT) [@benoitrenaud]
Photos sur le terrain:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92236755
M.J. Oldham collection 43092, replicates to CAN, DAO, TRT, MICH, BABY, NHIC# 03379, LKHD, MT, +1; previously collected (#43039) here; population originally discovered by Sean Blaney; disturbed trail edge; see Oldham, M.J., W.D. Van Hemessen, and S. Blaney. 2018. Round-fruited St. John’s-wort (Hypericum sphaerocarpum, Hypericaceae) in Canada. Canadian Field-Naturalist 132(4): 389–393.
This was adjacent to both Juncus canadensis and Juncus articulatus and was intermediate in height, branching and colouration, and doesn't look right for J. canadensis or any other expected species in the area. Any thoughts @ryanmorin?
Based on the species in immediate proximity this is Aronia floribunda x Sorbus aucuparia. Each parent is shown in records following this one. It's not in the iNaturalist taxonomy yet. This might not have a properly described scientific name. xSorbaronia hybrida may be closest. It is an aucuparia x melanocarpa/pyrifolia/arbutifolia hybrid described when the latter three were considered a single species.