Favoritos de natujuano

Thanks to @kruzkalke for pointing this plant out to me and encouraging me to photograph it.

Original species description: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233623493_Tiputinia_foetida_a_new_mycoheterotrophic_genus_of_Thismiaceae_from_Amazonian_Ecuador_and_a_likely_case_of_deceit_pollination

Full resolution images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiputinia_foetida_Pastaza_closeup.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiputinia_foetida_Pastaza.jpg

Morchella galilaea (identified by DNA analysis) fruiting in Monsoon Rainforest at Stoney Creek. Located on Stoney Creek in and around two eroded gullies feed by deep springs. Soils are free draining red metamorphic earths and are rich in organic matter. This morchella may be saprophytic at this location. A disjunct population is located 30 metres to the east on walking track. At this location the fruiting bodies are smaller and fewer. Extensive searches to date have found no other fruitings at any other locations in the region. It is more than likely that this species has been vectored here by tourists frequenting the area.

Growing under Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica). This was well into wild country in the Coconino National Forest, with no man-made landscape mulch or bark chips in the vicinity.

No visible spore print in 24 hours.

I have kept a small air-dried fragment if anyone wishes to have it for a microscopy or DNA study.