NC, Smokies, 20060625
CabinCove, under powerlines, mostly cladonias.
Amanita flavoconia
Several scattered near and under hemlock; on twayblade path past twayblades but before crossing the big rotten log.
| | GEN | | med mushroom, under conifers, mild odor |
| | ST | | bright yell, sl scurfy, smooth slick feel, tapered to top, 60x7-15mm, bulbous base, volva (if it is one) just a few ragged collars of min cap-patch-colored scales on top of bulb, rotten-hollow inside (old specimen I think), brittle, conspic skirt ring w min erose even marg, ring lter ab and orange-yell bel |
| | CAP | | 40-45mm, convex, vivid yell-orange to yell-orange near marg, granular orange to yell patches all over, smooth but not vscid, hygrophanous |
| | GILL | | whitish, abruptly notched, ~2 per mm, unbr, clean and smooth |
| | SPORE | | print white?, ellip, smooth, 1 cell, colorless, 6-7.5x5-6um, min knobbed, sticking in irreg towers |
Funky. This one looks similar, yes, but different enough I thought for sure I had a different species. But no, it matches the (good) description in every detail.
Cortinarius Bulbopodium
Two almost in a cluster; in open moist mixed wood probably assoc w conifers.
| | GEN | | med mushroom, on ground right next to and almost under rotted limb in mixed damp forest, unpleasant acrid odor |
| | ST | | tall, straight, 100x9-11mm, tapering v sl to top, fibrous, bulb at base w min collar-like volva, lt yell to brownish, dry feel, firm, brittle but fibrous and sorta hard to break but snaps when it does, hollow but sl stuffed, min brownish fibers or scales at top (veil? or spores catching on fibers?) |
| | CAP | | 45-50mm, broad conic, v sl if at all umbo, v viscid, surface slimy-rugose in fine concentric rings (fibrillose to scaly when dry), golden-orange-brown, yellowest at tan marg and in tight soft ring around v ctr brown spot |
| | GILL | | dirty lt brown w min erose edge, v notched to almost free, unbr, ~2 per mm |
| | SPORE | | print cinnamon to milk-chocolate brown, ellip, brown, 1 cell, roughened or finely tubercled, 11.5-12.5x8-9um, not really sticking |
NASTY odor. VERY viscid.
Lepraria lobificans [voucher]
From maple leaning over start of Mitchell's Wall trail.
| | GEN | | crust lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | leprose, v d lt green and white cottony soredia, v indistinct marg, no prothallus, probably no hypothallus, K+ yell (turns alg deep green), KC?, C- |
| | MED | | white if present at all, K-, C-, KC- |
All these are from that spot under the powerlines to right near end of twayblade trail:
Cladonia caespiticia [voucher]
| | THAL | | | prim squam | | lots, bushy, v finely div, yell-green ab, smooth white bel, K+ slow brownish?, KC-, C- |
| pod | | v short, no cortex, no granules/soredia/pruina |
|
| | APO | | large pillowy tan blobs |
Cladonia chlorophaea [voucher]
| | THAL | | | prim squam | | few, small to large, well-lobed but not div, smooth yell-green, smooth white bel, K+ brownish, KC-?, C- |
| podetia | | mostly unbr, to 13-15mm tall, expands trumpet-wise into 5mm broad perfect cups, all granular sorediate, esp large granular inside cups, no squam, some short proliferations, one cup-on-a-cup, sorediate inside like outside |
|
| | APO | | brown dots on end of cup marg teeth and proliferations |
Cup lichens with brown apo:
C. chlorophaea: X granular, often proliferate, big gran inside
C. asahinae: W granular, often proliferate, greyish-whitish
C. grayi: X granular, grayanic?
C. merochlorophaea: X granular, KC+ brief pink-violet
C. conista: E farinose, cortex bel
C. carneola: N farinose, yellowish, jagged
C. fimbriata: X farinose, narrower, even marg
C. albonigra: W white areoles over black bel, can prolif from ctr
C. pyxidata: X areolate
C. magyarica: X areolate, greyer, sl pruinose
C. pocillum: N areolate, radiating prim squamules
Cladonia coniocraea [voucher]
| | GEN | | cladonia, on rotting wood |
| | THAL | | | prim squam | | large (3mm or so wide), smooth even med-dk green, well lobed but not finely, smooth white bel, K-, KC-, C- |
| podetia | | to 15mm tall, unbr, tapering up, corticate at bottom but not even, powdery sorediate ab, v min tips |
|
| | APO | | min brown dots sometimes in clusters at tips |
Cladonia didyma vulcanica [voucher]
| | GEN | | cladonia, on rotting wood |
| | THAL | | | prim squam | | smooth even med green, smooth white bel, finely dentate to lobed narr straps, K+ yell, KC-, C- |
| podetia | | to 15mm, no cortex, d covered w granules but brown sterome showing through, unbr |
|
| | APO | | large vivid red clustered pillows at ends |
Cladonia "k plus red tree like" [voucher]
| | THAL | | | prim squam | | lots, v finely div and ascend, patchy yell-green with white showing through in retic pattern, smoothish white to sl pruinose bel, K+ faint yell turning slowly brown (on white underside) or dk brownish red (on top), lots of small black balls oftern min stalked |
| pod | | to 15mm tall, v multi-proliferate cups, corticate but broken into patches w pruinose white showing through between, squamulose at tips, overall tree-like appearance |
|
| | APO | | brown, in discont rings around lips of final small cups |
The only species mentioned in
Brodo with K+ red are
C. polycarpia,
C. polycarpoides, and
C. symphicarpia. None of these match at all.
Cladonia macilenta [voucher]
| | THAL | | | prim squam | | finely div, inconspic, yell-green, white bel, small, smooth white bel, K-, C-, KC- |
| podetia | | tall, few-br'd, to 40x1.5mm, finely sorediate entire length except a few w smooth cortex at v base, few scattered squam, K-, C-, KC- |
|
| | APO | | tiny to big red blobs at end of abrupt spray of short term brs |
Fairly confident despite negative K/KC tests: rather few tall red un-cupped cladonias.
Cladonia parasitica [voucher]
| | GEN | | cladonia, on rotting wood |
| | THAL | | | prim squam | | v finely div and lobed almost granular appearance at marg and tips, ascend, green, white bel, K+ yell, KC-, C- |
| podetia | | to 15mm, br'd once ab, covered w squamules and granules, no cortex, K+ yell |
|
| | APO | | black small balls at tips |
Cladonia peziziformis [voucher]
| | THAL | | | prim squam | | v min, v granular-lobed, green, white bel, disappearing?, K+ brownish, KC-, C- |
| podetia | | tall, br'd ab once, sinewy to slit length-wise, to 25-30mm tall, squamulose mostly only at base but some w min lobules scattered all the way up, excorticate spots on some, not sorediate or granular |
|
| | APO | | large pale brown smooth pillowy masses at tips |
Cladonia squamosa? [voucher]
| | GEN | | cladonia, on rotten wood |
| | THAL | | | prim squam | | v finely div and lobed, granular in appearance, white bel, lt green ab, K+ deep yell, KC-, C- |
| podetia | | 15mm tall, sinewy and contorted, somewhat to v flattened in many cases, br'd a few times above, axils gaping to split brs esp ab, could conceivably call the tips well-proliferated cups, squamulose to granular, no cortex, stereome white, K+ deep yell, KC-, C- |
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| | APO | | dk reddish brown pillows clustered at tips of brs |
Cladonia uncialis
| | THAL | | | prim squam | | v finely div and lobed, ascend, smooth even yell-green, smooth white bel |
| podetia | | well-br'd, regular dichot br'ing, "thorny" tips, scattered squam, contininuous to min cracked cortex, gaping holes in axils, some brs slit esp near tips |
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| | MED | | white, smooth and continuous |
| | APO | | min brown-black points at tips of brs |
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