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Comments: a beautiful mycoheterotroph. This is probably T. panamensis, the one common and widespread member of the genus in the Neotropics. The rest are exceedingly rare.
Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on May 27, 2019.
Specimens collected, transported, deposited, duplicated, exported and DNA sequenced with the express, written permission of the Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica (MAE) and the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INaBio), in compliance with the Nagoya Protocol. Copies of permits available to select parties upon request.
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Additional specimens not added to iNat observation fields:
Herbario Nacional del Ecuador: RLC1605
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Comments: collariate; fruiting bodies not exposed to sunlight notably paler
Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Feb. 8, 2022.
This striking, monotypic ascomycete almost resembles the offspring of a Phillipsia and a Favolaschia. First described as Peziza edulis by Spegazzini in 1891, it is known only from a narrow latitudinal belt spanning three distinct phytogeographical regions in central South America.
Habitat: Atlantic Paranaense forest
Substrate: on moderately- to well-decomposed, corticate and decorticate wood (though originating from beneath the cortex).
Collector: Vicky Vignale
Collection #: CIAR017
Collected during the 2015 “Curso de Identificación de Macrohongos Degradadores de Madera,” lead by Dr. Gerardo Robledo, Dr. Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, Dr. Orlando Fabián Popoff Montañez and Nicolás Niveiro.
Update:
I found several of these at Cedar Bog again this year. The last one might be Hexatoma brevicornis, so if you have expertise, please D.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172420801
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172420799
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172420798
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175243975
Note: I have photographed this Hexatomini at Cedar Bog in Champaign County, Ohio for at least 17 years. Always in the same area.
I've added two other observations; one from back in 2004.
Links to those observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88273567
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/84762884
Here's an observation this year (2022) with better pics of wing venation. Same location.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124010854
Growing in a grassy field which has horses and cows. Strong farinaceous odor and taste.
Cyphonia clavata. La Fortuna de San Carlos, Provincia de Alajuela, Costa Rica.
Fluorescent blue in ultraviolet light
Growing on leaf litter in broadleaf-podocarp forest. Caps to 35 mm across.
Psilocybe species, found in cow dung, deep blue bruising. Possibly "tasmaniana" or samuiensis but unsure. Getting sequenced
Unknown Psilocybe species, growing only beneath Eucalyptus trees in grass and dirt and leaf litter, moderate to heavy bruising. Small size. Ruler in the pic is 5cm for scale.
Psilocybe species. Possibly subaeruginosa or something else. Found in wood debris in eucalyptus forestry
Psilocybe species. Likely Psilocybe sect cordisporae. Found in wood debris in eucalyptus forestry
Growing from soil beneath a root cutaway, in very wet monsoonal conditions. Identified by Alan Rockefeller as Psilocybe sect. Cordisporae
Golden-backed Frog
Mushroom grown on frog body
Uploaded on behalf of the collector, Kym Brennan
Small, fragile, 10cm tall. In leaf mould in heavy shade, lowland spring-fed monsoon forest, on drier part towards margin.
This is a normal gilled mushroom that has a very thin cap flesh, which splits radially (between the gills). Further drying lifts and twists the gill-segments into the flower shape in the image. The type specimen from Vanauatu had the same form on all fruitbodies, but the author was unsure whether this was an oddity, or the normal condition. The find of this Australian specimen shows that it is the norm, but it would be great to find young fruitbodies to understand exactly of the final form develops – at what point in development does it depart from a mushroom shape?
The species is Hausknechtia floriformis, a monotypic genus only described in 2020, with a single species described (by Anton Hausknecht) in 2003, previously only known from Vanuatu. I have been on the lookout for it, great to know it occurs in Australia too.
A link to the genus description: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11557-020-01606-3
A link to the original species description: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjwh767wJD0AhWQXisKHV56AnkQFnoECAgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zobodat.at%2Fpdf%2FOestZPilz_12_0031-0040.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2rG4jlSDVwwBUmwAkpRYGM
Specimens found in a cooling water intake channel where water flow is fast. Image is scan from 35 mm slide film and was originally posted on Bowerbird (Obs 1635).
No change in KOH, mild but slightly metallic/unpleasant fungal flavor, no odor, rubbery texture.
Unknown Lichen sp.KH15
Odor of cedar and radish. Taste of radish. Under Calocedrus decurrens with some Abies around. All parts extremely fluorescent yellow.
Micrograph 1 is tissue from the volva at the base of the stem, 400x. Micrograph 2 is spores from the cortina, 1000x.
Spores measure (6.6) 6.7 - 7.3 (7.4) × (5) 5.1 - 5.6 (5.7) µm
Q = (1.2) 1.3 - 1.39 (1.4) ; N = 15
Me = 7 × 5.4 µm ; Qe = 1.3
Fungi found on rotting Dicksonia antarctica beside the lake at the Alfred Nicholas Memorial Gardens, Victoria, Australia.
The ground was unusually wet because of stronger and longer La Niñas from late 2020 to mid-2022, which brought record rain to parts of south-east Australia and widespread major flooding. This fungi is not normally found at this location in mid November.
Note: at the time of photographing, Tom May (head mycologist at Melbourne Herbarium) IDed these from dried specimens he requested, as Galeropsis sp. At the time, he said there was only one other recording in Australia, from the Horsham district in NW Victoria. My specimens were growing in dry cow manure in situ.
Growing under pile of scorched wood in old burn site. Under Eucalyptus and Pine species.
Two large bolete mushrooms growing near a large old oak tree at Lincoln University.
Ian Dickie took them home to eat.