NC, Smokies, 20060627
CabinCove, field to RR, fungi and flowers and lichens.
Mushrooms
Cantharellus minor
Just before leaving old overgrown field.
| | GEN | | tiny mushroom, v loosely clusters of 2 or 3, on mossy ground in mixed forest |
| | ST | | 20x2mm, not v straight, dker than cap, smooth to fibrillose, solid |
| | CAP | | to 10mm wide, v irreg bell to conic, top broadly rounded, apricot yell-orange, smooth |
| | GILL | | v shall, veiny, dker than cap, well spaced, thick, long decur |
| | SPORE | | print pale yell, colorless, ellip to obov, apic or min knobbed, smooth, 1 cell, 7-7.5x4.5-5um, sticking together in irreg clumps, "wet" |
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa flexuosa []
On rotting wood above elderberry spring on Mary-Wanda.
Collybia "tawny twig end"
On lower part of Ridge Runner under rhododendrons.
| | GEN | | tiny mushroom, on end of rotting hardwood limb, under rhododendron, v shady moist spot on slope, revives |
| | ST | | 40x1-1.5mm, taper upward, lt creamy tan, straight, d wh tom to long tufted bel (to 1mm long) |
| | CAP | | 13-14mm wide, convex, tan, brown fibrillose, dker edge, marg min curled under |
| | GILL | | creamy, shall, free, 1.5 per mm, unbr, white dusting spores visible at 30x |
| | SPORE | | print snow white, narr ellip, smooth, colorless, 1 cell, apic?, 6-7x2.5-3.5um |
Lack of striations and ability to revive imply
Marasmius or
Collybia. It seems in
Arora that hairy stem means the latter on average. I've seen this kind before, so I'm christening a name for it.
Marasmius prasiosmus? []
On lower part of Ridge Runner in open hemlock forest.
| | GEN | | tiny slustered mushrooms, on rotting grape vine |
| | ST | | to 15x1mm, curling gracefully and irreg to erect like snakes, constrict at v bot, tan, finely white tom, white at v base, garlic odor, revives |
| | CAP | | 7+mm, convex to flat, often dented in ctr, tan but lter in ctr and marg, fibrillose? (weird texture), marg curled in when young |
| | GILL | | 2-3 per mm, wavy, lt tan, att to decur, br'd |
| | SPORE | | print snow white, colorless, ellip, smooth, 1 cell, tends to be narrower at one end, 4.5-5.5x1.9-2.8um |
Must be strong to notice the garlic odor from something that tiny
and even after reviving it in water! Keys to
M. copelandii in
Arora but spores are
way too small. I have to guess
M. prasiosmus just because he says it has the smalled spores, even though he gives no details for it, and even questions whether it occurs in NAmer!
Mycena "teeny tiny on bark"
Maple on right near start of Mary-Wanda.
| | GEN | | tiny mushroom, on living maple bark at chest-height |
| | ST | | 5x0.5mm, color and texture of cap |
| | CAP | | 1x1.5mm, purplish brown, bell, marg curled in, min white puber |
| | GILL | | same color as cap, few white spores visible at 30x |
| | SPORE | | print pale, colorless, ellip, smooth, 1 cell, no texture or "stuff" inside, 8.5x5.5um, no knob or pore |
Only found a single spore(!) for "print". Keys out convincingly in
Mycena... to a large group
Arora includes under
M. capillaris. I have hereby christened them
M. teeny-tiny. So there.
Mycena "teeny tiny in leaves"
On lower part of Ridge Runner under rhododendrons.
| | GEN | | tiny mushroom, on soil, under rhododendron, v shady moist spot on slope |
| | ST | | twisty thread, 50x0.5mm, tough wiry, dkish sl vinaceous brown, smooth |
| | CAP | | 3mm, flat to v sl convex, v translucent striate, sl plicate, lt tan to dk brown in center to whitish right at marg, sl vinaceous hue, smooth |
| | GILL | | dk brown, v sl decur, abundant white cistidia or spores visible at 30x, 2 per mm, unbr |
| | SPORE | | print pale greyish-yellowish?, ellip, colorless, "stuff" inside, not fully smooth, 1 cell, 6-8x4-5um |
Yeah, didn't really expect to find it in my books.
Panus "teeny tiny"
On lower part of Ridge Runner under rhododendrons.
| | GEN | | tiny shelf mushroom, on rotting rhododendron |
| | ST | | lat stubby, tan tom like cap |
| | CAP | | 4mm wide, round to wider than deep, even d tan tom (some dker than others), marg curled under |
| | GILL | | beautiful deep brown, unbr, dist, shallow, decur |
| | SPORE | | print whitish, greenish w thicker side-walls, ellip-cyl, smooth, 1 cell, 9-11x5-6um |
Herbs
Crepis capillaris []
In rock garden; finishing fl, starting fr.
| | GEN | | erect to decumb herb, few scattered yell glandular bristles on st and lvs and infl |
| | LF | | irreg pinfid, long sharp basal aurs |
| | INFL | | well-br'd corymb, glab |
| | PHYL | | constrict ab, 1 main row plus a few finy ones, 7-8x1mm, acute, invol 5mm wide bel and 2-3mm wide ab, d yell long gland bristly |
| | OV | | somewhat comp, 10-ribbed, green, cyl, 1.8mm, abrupt red at topb and bot, glab to v min ant scaber |
| | FR | | brown, ellip, sl comp, 1.8x0.6mm, 10 ribbed, glab to v min ant scab ribs, ribs lter, no beak, pap spreads 45deg and persist |
| | PAP | | cap bristles, 4-5mm, snow white, v min ant scaber, many |
I could've sworn this was a
Sonchus because of the constricted invol above, but
Crepis matches batter (I could never convince myself the frs were flattened, just sl comp but essentially terete).
Hypochaeris radicata
In field above road at top of hill; in fr.
| | GEN | | tall herb, few sts, br'd few times, brs erect |
| | LF | | basal, pinfid, d long hirsute |
| | FR | | | body | | ellip, 4x0.5mm, ~14 ribs, red brown, whitish bloom between ribs, ribs ant scaber, sl trans rugose at top |
| beak | | 8mm, ant scaber, red brown |
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| | PAP | | plumose bristles, straw, side brs 1mm long and v fine, spread 90deg in fr |
Oenothera fruticosa glauca
On shady slope above elderberry spring; just in flower.
| | SEP | | 4, joined at tip to one side of flower |
Rudbeckia hirta []
In full fl at top of field by house. Also one budding in far Mary-Wanda field.
Lichens
Chrysothrix candelaris [] [voucher]
On locust fence post just before road enters forest going downhill.
| | GEN | | crust lichen, on locust fence post |
| | THAL | | bright golden, entirely powdery leprose, no hypothallus, indistinct marg, K-, C-, KC- |
| | ALG | | green (can see it after K dissolves yell pigment) |
Note that post is in full sun, but lichen only grows on the northern side under the slant of posts that slant to the north.
On sweet birch by road in field above Mary Wanda.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | v appress, lt green, pseudocyphellae adundant as white elongated spots, lobes 3-4mm wide and finely crenulate, scattered cyl br'd isidia on surface becoming abundant in ctr, K+ yell, C-, KC-, fine black edging, lt tan bel w abundant short often well-br'd rhiz all over |
| | MED | | white, K-, C+ pink, KC+ red quickly turning yell |
Flavoparmelia caperata [] [voucher]
On locust post along road below cabin.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on locust fence post in full sun |
| | THAL | | v appress, yell-green, smooth, flat, final lobes 1-2mm median lobes up to 4mm wide, no cilia, thick dk black edging, soredia in piles in scattered places including tips and wrinkles at ctr, black bel to brown at marg w short unbr black rhiz abundant all over but short near marg, K+ pale yell, KC+ gold, C- |
| | MED | | white, K+ pale yell, KC+ pink, C- |
Lecanora thysanophora [] [voucher]
On maple in first field of Mary Wanda on right just before leaving it.
| | GEN | | crust lichen, on smooth maple bark |
| | THAL | | lt green, fine powdery leprose, stringly white hypothallus or prothallus |
Physciella chloantha [voucher]
On black walnut? bark on Ridge Runner just downhill from jct.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | dk green, lobes ~1mm wide, somewhat ascending exposing d soredia under tips, even color and smooth, white bel w pale rhiz in ctr, K-, KC-, C- |
Rimelia reticulata [voucher]
On poplar on Mary Wanda to right just as you're leaving first field.
| | GEN | | foliose liche, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | lt grey-green, lobes 1-2mm wide & somewhat squared off, mostly appress but lobes w pillows of powdery soredia at or close to tips usually ascending, abundant reticulate maculae cracking in age and looking a lot liek pseudocyphellae, black to brown at tips bel w v abundant squarrose black rhiz in a tangled mass that protrudes from bel looking like cilia, K+ bright yell turning brown-red (when it reaches medulla), C- |
| | MED | | white, K+ vivid yell turning red then quickly dk muddy brown-red, C- |
The lobes on this specimen are particularly narrow.
On poplar on Mary Wanda to right just as you're leaving first field.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | med to lt green, lobes flat and somewhat appress & 1mm wide & longer than wide, shiny smooth w white spotted maculae later cracking widely, scattered br'd isidia, black to brown at tips bel w abundant short squarrose black rhiz protruding from bel, K+ bright yell, KC-, C- |
| | MED | | white, K+ vivid yell turning quickly red then dk brown-red, C- |
Heterodermia neglecta [voucher]
On poplar on Mary Wanda to right just as you're leaving first field.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | lt grey, smooth and even color, tips sl spread to ascend, soredia abundant under tips, soredia whitish mixed w spots of orange to yell pigment, white or pale bel w abundant short to long often squarrose black rhiz often w white tips where not contacting substrate, rhiz abundant to edge and becoming actual cilia, lobes long and narr to 2x1mm, K+ pale yell?, KC-, C-, yell "fuzz" bel under tips K+ red |
On tulip poplar by road in field above Mary Wanda.
| | GEN | | script lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | nearly hidden inside bark, greyish-greenish cast, black marg, smooth, K-, C-, KC- |
| | APO | | lirellae, br'd 0-2 times, black walls, sharp ends, whitish greyish bloom over interior, superficial but barely raised, to 2mm long |
| | ASC | | v thick tip trunc inside |
| | SPORE | | big, ellip, smooth, colorless, 8-10 cells, walls unevenly thickened, 25-40x7-10um |
| | PARA | | long narr unbr w conspic brown round tips |
Lecanora allophana [voucher]
On poplar on Mary Wanda to right just as you're leaving first field.
| | GEN | | crust lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | white, continuous, min cracked, min roughened or verruculose (no cortex?), black marg where hits other lichens, K+ yell, KC-, C- |
| | APO | | lecanorine disks, constrict bel, to 1mm| marg | | snow white, thick, even, wavy, min roughened, raised ab disk |
| disk | | rich red brown to yellish brown, varied in same disk, flat to sl convex, gen sunken sl bel marg, rough-shiny |
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| | SPORE | | ellip, smooth, colorless, 1-cell, 16x8um, only saw a few faint ones because apothecia seem to all be immature still |
| | PARA | | long narrow branched, tips brownish |
Having trouble finding spores. I thought I did: v thick-walled round 1-celled colorless things 15-20um wide, but this leads me to
Ochrolechia or
Pertusaria the first doesn't seem to have any species with the obvious K+ yell reaction; the second has spores way too large and just looks way wrong. Ignoring spores I'm led to:
Loxospora ochrophaea (apo margin not ragged though),
Lecania (doesn't key to species, but could theoretically be one of the ones with atranorin>,
Lecanora allophana and
L. hybocarpa. Of the latter two, the former looks closest. There are lots and lots of immature asci, but only a few possible spore-sightings. What the hell are those "fish-eggs"??
Pertusaria multipunctoides? [voucher]
On dead small maple? across Mary-Wanda by elderberry spring.
| | GEN | | crust lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | lt grey-green, v verrucose and cracked showing white through from bel, K-, C-, KC- |
| | MED | | white, C-, K+ orange to reddish-brownish, KC- |
| | APO | | buried inside white cottony pustules all over surface of thallus, v sl pale pinkish |
| | SPORE | | 110-120x40-50um, wall 5-6um thick, colorless, wall perfectly uniform and sharp smooth-walled both edges, inside filled with finely textured stuff but sometimes with lens-shaped clear open cavities along some of the walls |
Not knowing number of spores per ascus makes it hard.
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