Host is an unidentified insect larvae, found growing from the cut end of a well decayed and wet log (Silver fir seems most likely but almost completely debarked) The part of the log it was in was the lowest, wettest sector of the log on the downhill end.
Found near roots that were growing from a nurse log, which was likely spruce.
It appears to have hooked parathesis, septate spores, and the asci are amyloid in melzers reagent.
Not sure what this is, collected and attempts at cultures are underway. So far fungi of temperate Europe vol. 2 is turning up nothing.
cf… the host is different. Possible novel species?
Host is definitely a wasp or Yellowjacket. I found a myceliated wasp head and wings. Host was buried deep into hardwood substrate.
Microscopy seemingly matches
Growing along roadcut in redwood forest. Pileus brown, minutely granular-scaly. Lamellae thick, widely spaced; yellow to white, widely attached to decurrent. Stipe bright yellow, brittle, dry, ornamented with white granular chevrons at the apex and bright white farina at base.
Specimen 35
This mushroom was found on a mossy rock by a waterfall in a very moist microclimate
A new salamander of the genus Bolitoglossa (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from the highlands of western Panama
DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5129.4.4
Paratypes. MHCH 3242, juvenile (MP 175) collected 0.9 km ca. NE of the type locality (8.8682°N, 82.4844°W, 1983 m)
In sphagnum in bull moose fen. Spores light tan under microscope, smooth, elliptical, with germ pore. Cap cuticle filamentous.
ID is a guess. Maybe Hymenochaetales though?
Mounted in Melzers reagent
Asci measure around 245.9 × 25.5 µm
Coprinellus 'PNW 04' growing completely submerged in flowing water on various small pieces of wood. I have no reason to think the water level here has recently risen, in a spring and summer long stream of snowmelt directly below a culvert in a considerable current, we haven't had any significant hot streak that would have raised the flow.
Overmature and mature clusters collected. Bases of the stipe seemed to have a "holdfast" adaptation at the base similar Vibrissea, see pictures. (I know they are in a different order, more of a visual metaphor)
Burned Quercus/Pinus dominant woodland (now shrubland post-burn), just west of Knoxville road near Lake Berryessa
Growing in soil and directly off fine roots in a hole leftover from a burned out root system
Brown pileus with a wavy margin. Lamellae white to cream colored, anastomosing, subdistant to distant, broadly attached to subdecurrent. Stipe short, fibrous, off-center
Smell indistinct
Rabbit dung. @werdnus have you ever seen something like this? F000208
Growing in the decomposing material underneath patches of reeds next to the lake shore. No blueing noted. Smell fungoid, taste fungoid with very slight bitterness. No reaction to KOH on pileus or stipe. No UV fluorescence noted at unknown wavelength of UV flashlight. Micrographs are at 1000x using congo red washed with KOH of the gill edge with cheilocystidia, and the non-stained gill edge using KOH. Hygrophanous cap, Spore print something like chocolate lavender.
NOTE: The first photo does not accurately show the color of the pileus, please see other photos.
Size: pileus 1.5mm-2mm. stipes 5mm-8mm. Odor: None. Taste: N/A. KOH: pale yellow brown. UV: base moderately bright whitish.
Notes: Possibly a Cuphophyllus sp. Very small, abundant fruiting in small muddy cove along disturbed trail edge.
One only under old rimu; c. 15 cm across. No beech anywhere near. Some Kunzea robusta close; Pinus radiata some distance away. Austropaxillus??
On rotten stump. Tallest 1" tall.
In rock crevice, growing on bare ultramafic soil, each mushroom actually attached to a small piece of rock embedded in the red clay. Pileus bright white, minutely fuzzy/scurfy, ruffled at the edge in maturity. Lamellae white, wavy, decurrent. Stipe white with slight basal tomentum.
Found by truffle dog Rye, fruiting gregariously along an ephemeral creek bed. Some were visible without any digging (see the bright truffle in the creek photo).
Aroma predominantly of banana/starchy tropical fruit, with undertones of Kalamata olive. Fruit bodies dense, with rainbow tones in both the gleba and peridium including orange/yellow, pink, and purple.
Surrounding trees included mountain hemlock and firs. Elevation ~5500’. Notably, these were found a couple days after the first rains of summer/early fall.
Host buried in decaying log.
Observation of the host insect (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181005411)
F1043
hosts encased in white, cottony sheaths of either fungal or insect (cocoon) origin. likely sp. nov. compare with Observation 231368
Host: scarabaeid beetle larvae (IDed by Dr. Nigel Hywel-Jones)
Habitat: riparian “Tucumano-Boliviano” alder forest (Alnus acuminatus)
Ecoregion: Bolivian Yungas (NT0105)
Collectors: D. Newman, P. Kaishian, D. Ettlinger, I. Cuba Pinto, T. Padilla Albis, A.I. Echeverría Rojas, M.Á. Centellas Levy, N. Gonzales San Miguel, P.A. Angulo Salazar, S. Ochoa Bustillos & A. Sandoval
Collection #: SEHU021
Collected during the 2nd Expedición Micológica de la Sociedad Micológica de Bolivia, with support from Eduardo Morales and the Herbario Criptogámico of Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo (UCBSP).
In Sphagnum
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
Very colorful individual
Growing in association with Ceratiola ericoides (Florida rosemary) in old dune habitat. Usually grows in clusters.
As a waxcap enthusiast, these were one of the most interesting collections I've ever made. Growing in white sand between forest edge and road. Poorly formed gills, mostly ridges and smooth hymenium on young specimens. Flat pileus. Large fruiting, (especially since most Hygrocybe spp. encounters involved only a single fruit) over 20 mushrooms, very small stature. Location approximate.
Second and third photo show specimen that was found in situ. I brought the specimens home and put them in a small container with a damp paper towel and a week later they formed fruit bodies as shown the rest of the photos
Natural infection of Chiromyzinae larvae (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) in
southern Chile by Tolypocladium valdiviae sp. nov. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2022.12.004
On a downed White Oak (Quercus garryana) at Denman Wildlife Area.
2nd photo shows UV reaction.
Same log as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146928673 & https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147080796.
Genus confirmed by DNA analysis (Scott Redhead). Unique species on two adjacent small oak stumps
On caterpillar, located in between the back parking lots on the lefthand side of the road across from chapel trailhead, in the grass, straight across from rock pile
Bog area next to open water.
Old growth habitat
Stipe dried bright red
suggested new species: protubera cerebrum
On mixed needle littter. In mixed conifer-hardwood forest with Pseudotsuga menziesii, Arbutus menziesii and Quercus chrysolepis.
Fischerula subcaulis
Mild, unremarkable truffle-y aroma. Multiple specimens found in one general area by truffle dog Rye. Primarily Douglas-fir. Truffles very firm, some with obvious recessed stipe-columella and others more subtle.
@corndog these were in Sphagnum… any idea?
Found by @thehyphaemovement
Found by Ulrike Kullik. Nigelia sp. has been suggested by Nigel Hywel-Jones. Infected by Syspastospora parasitica. Microscopy. Vouchered.
On a species of lantern bug (Zanna sp?)
An apparent mass infection of these bugs produced a carpet of bright yellow fungi on the forest floor.
Found in leafletters in a wet carrs. Accepted officially in Denmark as found no. 4 or 5.
On ant, in youngish open alder, Doug fir, cedar forest with stinging nettles and salmon berry. Some parasitized ants were in duff layer, some in moss on dead tree trunk.
Inocephalus. Viscid stipe. Same as previous observations. No odor.