NC, Smokies, 20060702
Cabincove and Cataloochee, mostly fungi and lichens.
Asbury to Cataloochee and back; Tigger's Trot on the way up, Yellow Gate Road and Prissy Bear's on the way back.
Tubifera ferruginosa []
"Pink tapioca" slime mold. On a rotten oak log halfway down Asbury. Found photo here: www.plant.uga.edu. Color is off, but that could be color balancing or environmental, I guess.
snail
Just a random picture, nothing special.
turks cap
Keep forgetting to write this one down found it on slope past pine forest a while ago. Not blooming yet.
umbrella leaf
On final slope among dog hobble and stuff.
Bondarzewia berkeleyi []
At base of chestnut oak with that enormous burl halfway down Asbury.
Chlorociboria aeruginascens []
Just wanted to take a picture of a stained log. It's all over.
Circaea lutetiana
These were on a mossy v old rotten hemlock log at top of final slope.
Oudemansiella radicata
At top of ridge between the two creeks on Asbury.
| | GEN | | med-tall mushroom, on soil under hardwoods |
| | ST | | 80x3-9mm, thin ab to sorta abruptly bulbouse at base, terminating in tapered long wavy taproot 50+mm long, smooth, fibrous-striate, pretty cartilaginous tough, brownish in mid-range but whitish ab and bel, stuffed to hollow, brittle but v fibrous |
| | CAP | | 40mm wide, convex, shiny clear tacky covering (dried viscid stuff?) over pale tan w med brown broad umbo and radiating somewhat branched fine veins, marg hung w narr ragged remains of veil, soft |
| | FLESH | | 3-4mm, white, soft, bends w/o snapping |
| | GILL | | whitish, a little wavy, unbr, < 1 per mm, sl broadly notched |
| | SPORE | | print snow white, colorless, ov-ellip, obtuse pted one end, v min textured to smooth, thick black walls, 1 cell, sticking in irreg towering masses, 15-18x10-12um |
white knob fungus []
Same thing I saw on 20060611; a little better developed now.
| | CAP | | buffy-white, min fuzzy |
| | FLESH | | buffy-white, 2mm thick or more, tough but not corky or drying bone hard, K- |
| | PORE | | only on bottom of "cap", 6-7 per mm, thin hoary walls, whitish |
Peltigera polydactylon [] [voucher]
This was on that enormous hemlock that blocked a large part of the original Asbury going down the final slope. Thought it was just another P. rufescens, but now I realize I've probably been seeing several related species all this time. Need to check for pruina and tomentum more dilligently all over surface, as well as color of veins and quality of rhizines.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on moss on rotting hemlock |
| | THAL | | broad, flat to gently undulating, marg sl crisped, totally smooth w a matte sort of shine (even tips), lt grey, creamy white to blackish bel w dker grey veins and simple to brush-like often tufted scattered rhiz |
| | APO | | on finger-like proliferating erect lobules from marg of thallus, reddish brown to blackish |
On mossy hardwood overhanging river at end of Asbury.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on mossy hardwood |
| | THAL | | steel-grey, 4mm or so wide, smooth to coarsely folded, cortex on both sides, flattened lobule-like isidia on older parts of surface and dense on most margs, not flat at all, no rhiz visible |
On mossy hardwood overhanging river at end of Asbury.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on moss hardwood |
| | THAL | | solid brown, lobes to 5mm wide, deeply cren or toothed, marg crisped to curling up, white tom by apo, some marg somewhat lobulate, even pale tan v min tom to naked bel, K-, C-, KC- |
| | APO | | reddish brownish, under protruding somewhat ascending tongues at edges of thallus, marg sometimes lobulate |
Yes, lobules are called flat isidia again.
Hypotrachyna "medulla negative" [voucher]
On fallen bark by river at end of Asbury.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | flat, regularly overlapping-lobed, sinuses rounded, lobes to 5mm, appress, even pale grey, black marg, black w v d black v-br'd rhiz bel, rhiz visible as cilia-like fringe from ab (some real ones might be present but they angle down not out), piles of soredia at lobe tips, K+ yell, C- |
There's another one on the same piece that has red-brown "galls", cortex K+ yell, and medulla K+ yell quickly to deep blood red and CK+ yell to vivid red. All the rest is the same: black bel w forked black rhiz, even pale grey ab, piles of soredia at tips.
On trunk of birch overhanging river at end of Asbury.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | lobes smooth med grey, conspic spotted with perfect white pseudocyph all over, lobes to 8mm wide, marg min curling down but thallus mostly concave with lobes forming broad cups, black bel to brown near marg w some large white blotches, rhiz sparse and short in ctr, thin rolls of soredia along some margs, K+ weak yell, C-, KC- |
| | MED | | thick, white, loose, K-, C-, KC- |
Coccocarpia palmicola [] [voucher]
On that old huge dead oak at top of Tigger's Trot.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on mossy hardwood |
| | THAL | | tight appress small rosette, silky-striate grey smooth surface, flat, to 2mm wide, overlap a bit, v d short white tipped to black fringe of hairs showing from bel, v d tangled mat of black tomentum/hair bel, white cortex present under mat of hairs (which are easily scraped away), cyl unbr isidia scattered over surface of all but tips, K-, C-, KC- |
| | MED | | v thin, whitish, K-, C-, KC- |
Pyxine sorediata []
Hypotrachyna taylorensis []
On conifer twig from somewhere on dry part of Asbury, I think.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on hardwood twig |
| | THAL | | v tight appress, lobes flat, overlap, 1 or 3mm wide depending how fine of a lobe you measure, v short black br'd rhiz conspic along marg, true cilia, presumably black ber, even smooth lt grey ab, broad flat pustules breaking up into powdery soredia on surface of lobes, K+ weak yell, C-, KC- |
| | MED | | white, thick, K-, C+ weak momentary pink, KC- |
As sure as I can be, I guess, given how incomplete this key has proven to be. (Sharing twig w much larger specimen of the lichen below.)
On conifer twig from somewhere on dry part of Asbury, I think.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on hardwood twig |
| | THAL | | ascending, lobes narrow (1-1.5mm wide), marg curling down making lobes sort of finger or tube-like, pale grey but weakly mottled (not true maculae I think), coarse soredia borne in broad zone under exposed tips, cortex weak and peeling away from medulla bel, cortex pale tan to black and naked apparently bel (rhiz hidden in ctr?), K+ yell, C-, KC- |
| | MED | | white, thick, K-, C-, KC- (I might be able to convince myself there's a v fleeting v faint pink in there before the C bleaches it out) |
Only real issue is the medulla should be KC+ pink.
Heterodermia squamulosa [] [voucher]
On that old huge dead oak at top of Tigger's Trot.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on mossy hardwood |
| | THAL | | even smooth pale grey, lobes narr (0.5mm or less wide), margs d finely lobulate and curled up, apparently no cortex bel white pruinose near edge and somewhat dusty blackish near ctr bel, squarrose white-tipped black rhiz along marg and scattered bel, K+ v yell, C-, KC- |
| | MED | | white, K+ v yell, C-, KC- |
Hard to key: one needs to call the squarrose cilia "fake cilia", and under no circumstance call them "forked". But once you make it to
H., it is very clear.
Heterodermia speciosa []
On that old huge dead oak at top of Tigger's Trot. This one had me confused for a while:
| | THAL | | lower cortex poorly developed in some places, few cilia br'd, ext lobe tip sl white pruinose, cortex thick, somewhat lobulate marg in places |
Down by the river again; just a nice example.
Pertusaria "four spore paratuberculifera" [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | crust lichen, on moss |
| | THAL | | scrambling over moss, thin, whitish, smooth to verrucose, shiny, K-, C-, KC- |
| | APO | | in smooth sided warts, warts to 1mm large, 1 to sev apo buried in each |
| | SPORE | | colorless, 4 per ascus in one row, football, huge, 100-125x45-50um, walls 8-10um, walls even and smooth both sides, germ pore both ends protruding into inside, faintly textured inside |
Matches
P. paratuberculifera perfectly, but has 4 spores instead of 8. Also matches
P. tetrathalamia fairly well (key only) but has conspic smooth inner spore walls. Finally, keys to
P. leioplaca but has larger spores.
snail
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