Favoritos de maricel-patino

On Arundo donax (Tall grass). Fungus has a black and dusty aspect; it was growing on a dry old piece of stem. Garden. On the first micro photo, it should read that the dark basal cells are attached to a conidiophore.

On an old rotten fragment of hardwood found in shady woods; the area is subject to flood during the winter. It was incubated for two days. The words to describe it were borrowed from L. H. Barnett.
Because this is new to me, I wasn't aware that it has hairs/setae. There is one on the second photo.

On a 6mm hardwood stick. Biggest cap was 5.3 cm wide; caps are held by a thick base which attaches it to the wood by dense hairs. No stem seen. Gills are spaced. Cystidia are present on cap and edge of gills.

Crust has teeth; waxy when dry and gelatinous when wet. Teeth are conical, single or fusing, on a common subiculum. With a delicate margin. Teeth could be hanging perpendicular to ground or hanging and overlapping a bit if on the side of substrate. Shady woods. Teeth are up to 1.5mm long.
Same as this one:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/234395740

Crust has teeth; waxy when dry and gelatinous when wet. Teeth are conical, single or fusing, on a common subiculum. With a delicate margin. Teeth could be hanging perpendicular to ground or hanging and overlapping a bit if on the side of substrate. This one is growing vertically and the delicate margin has disappeared. Shady woods. Teeth are up to 1.5 mm long.

White crust of delicate aspect. Few spots turning cream-pale yellow. Micro revealed an anamorph of a basidiomycete due to the presence of clamp connections which were very abundant. Hyphae are very variable in shape: in spiral form, straight and inflated. Conidia are produced on Peruvian potato-like cells. Several curved hyphae like nematode trap were seen. On hardwood against the ground. Shady woods.

On hardwood. Several caps were seen. 4-5 pores per mm, with an irpicoid aspect. Pore length a bit less than 2mm. Pores look grey but up close they really look gelatinous and glassy. Strong fungal smell, a bit sweet. Fruitbody is spongy and flexible. Specimen examined was 2.5 cm wide. Shady woods. C. populus or C. caesiosimulans.

Still unsure. The funguses feel very hard and compact. They are growing at the base of a Cupressus sempervirens. Garden. First photo taken late in the evening; second photo taken early in the morning. Third day, the fungi were covered with yellow powdery hyphae.

On hardwood. Anamorph and teleomorph are together. The anamorph as fake teeth spread all around the hymenium, and producing tiny conidia. The crust is very thin and becomes almost transparent when wet. Preserve.

Found by chance growing through a thin crust fungus. Preserve and rice field canal edge. Only hardwoods present. "Conidiophores dark, stout, upright, dendritically (arborescent) branched, ultimate branches producing solitary conidia; conidia dark, 4- or more-celled, cylindrical, straight or slightly curved; saprophytic." H. L. Barnett.

Resupinate polypore with a lighter delicate margin which extends in a wide manner and has an arachnoid/loose aspect; bottom of pores has the same look. It has a kind of disagreeable smell; 4-5 pores per mm. KOH just made it gelatinous; but even water does that too. Its color is some kind of dirty pale green; its margin has a dirty white tone. When dry is very brittle. On hardwood; at the edge of a preserve and a rice field canal. In some tiny spots, the polypore is white.

Several units bursting through the bark. The amount of conidia produced on each fruitbody is humongous. The fungus itself is hidden at the bottom; it is gelatinous and immerse in the wood. What the photo shows are the masses of conidia that break apart when wet. They kind of 'melt' on the wood. Conidia are produced trough some type of collar. On Ficus carica; at the edge of a preserve, in a seepage area.

Clonostachys rosea (Link: Fr.) Schroers et al. F 85

was isolated from soil at Site B in June. This is known to be mycoparasite as Gliocladium roseum, a widely distributed species. This species was transferred to Clonostachys in 2000. It is characterized by two kinds of conidiophores. The Verticillium-type primary conidiophores are formed first, then more complicated Penicilium-type secondary conidiophores are formed. The shape of conidia from both types are different from each other. The conidia are also characteristically asymmetrical. https://www.tamagawa.ac.jp/sisetu/gakujutu/alsrc/tama_kin/slide08e.htm

Crust of delicate, arachnoid aspect (loose) when young, pure white; developing teeth and acquiring a cream color later on. Halocystidia and other type of cystidia seen; clamps profuse on subhymenium and hyphal ends which have incrustations. Unable to see any basidia but plenty of spores were seen. Margin has a loose aspect. On hardwood. Shady woods.

On a small piece of hardwood. Perithecia are ~5mm in diameter and they are soft and covered with dark setae. When younger they are attached to substratum by a net of dark septate hyphae; later, the 'ball' detaches easily and may roll. Preserve.

Thin white crust with some yellow spots; delicate and arachnoid aspect; structures have clamps; halocystidia present. On thin rotten, wet hardwood stick of 5.5mm. Shady woods. The crust has an extraordinary sweet fungal smell. Thinning towards margin. The crust was seen also growing on long fibers!

White thin crust of delicate aspect; subhymenium has a loose aspect. It thins out towards margin. Hymenium is covered with numerous exerted ornamented cystidia. On oak or fig rotten wood, near a rice field bank. Preserve.

Stick was retrieved from a rice canal and incubated. Cotton Blue cells from second day; Kongorot cells from 3rd day. Bulbil-like cells developed on it. They start white and mature to a pink-peach tone. They don't seem to have an attachment. Conidia are starting to develop giving the fungus some kind of cauliflower appearance.

On old Quercus gall Andricus quercustozae. The crust is very thin and is mainly composed of gloeocystidia with a bulbous base that narrows to a tip that exerts a little bit beyond the basidial layer. Few of these exerted tips were seen having crystals.

On Ficus carica rotten branch. The crust has a fibrose margin. No rhizomorphs were seen. Although my spores are a bit narrower, the light color of the short and inflated subhymenial hyphae, and the morphological appearance of the crust makes it look like it.

On rotten hardwood (oak or fig); side of cliff in a preserve. Crust is gelatinous. Interesting to notice that this crust was perhaps more mature than another observation I just made. It has more spores germinating and also even younger basidia were developing one single thin sterigmata. Spores are bigger than in the former observation.https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/227554376

Thin crust of arachnoid aspect; the warty appearance is false. It is given by growing on scat and debris. Crust thins out towards margin. Two types of cystidia: one capped with crystals and other inflated and narrowing towards tip. All structures with clamps. On rotten hardwood (oak or fig) at the side of a rice canal; area subject to flood.

On rotten hardwood (oak or fig) next to a rice canal. Area is subject to flood. Crust is very thin, looking almost like white dust. Some fine cordons were seen. Clamps are present. Basidia were not observed. The white crust is another species.

On unknown decorticated hardwood (oak or fig); side of rice canal. Area is subject to flood. Teeth are of waxy aspect and compact, with hyphal ends at the tip of teeth strongly incrusted up to 5.4 um wide (very long). Cystidia (leptocystidia) with simple septa; clamps are present in subhymenial hyphae which have thin to thick walls up to 2.9 um wide.

Bell-like fungus. Cap is ornamented with brownish cystidia. Cheilocystidia are present on edge of gill. On Ficus carica. Edge of preserve and rice field canal. Biggest cap ~3mm, attached by a central point. Stipe is absent. Gills are spaced.

On a stick. Small size. Newly opened stretch of land along a rice canal. Clamps are present. Cystidia are present on edge of gills, side of gills, cap and stipe. Marasmiellus?
Pierre-Arthur Moreau:
"I was about to ask if the stipe was pruinose, but I read that there are cystidia everywhere, then I go to Porotheleaceae/Cyphellaceae. My first idea would be Marasmiellomycena (ex-Marasmiellus) omphaliiformis or a close unknown relative but hairs on pileipellis are not visible on your pictures. Another possibility is Marasmiellus virgatocutis o another Physalacriaceae nearby with aberrant cystidia, which could also be teratological monosporic basidia."

There were more than 50 units within few centimeters area. examined specimen at left of photo. Cap with umbo: 1.9 cm; hollow and fibrose stipe 5 cm x 4.5mm at its base. It feels sturdy. Gills are spaced, with two types of attachment: one full style, mixed with a decurrent tooth. The hyphae from the cap were slightly brown-gray.

Cap 8mm; stipe 18mm. It has a faint smell of cabbage and fish. It revived after being wet. Cap is a bit sunken at center. Stipe is densely covered with odd shaped cystidia. Clamps are present. Three units on a small hardwood branch. Shady woods.

Very thin crust fungus; originally it showed some low warts; KOH and even water make it turn light ocher pink. When cut, it showed yellow staining. Margin thins out and shows few delicate hyphae. Cystidia are absent. Clamps are present.