FL, Keys, 20071226
Indian Key and Buttonwood, fungi flowers etc.
These are from "the other side of the fence". We got a serious downpour yesterday.
bitty brown twig mushroom [voucher]
| | GEN | | minute mushroom, on hardwood twig (3mm wide), sev scattered along twig |
| | ST | | 10-13x0.4mm, bluish-black bel to whitish at top, white puber, wiry tough, abruptly flared at base |
| | CAP | | 4mm wide, lt to dark brown, convex, smooth, sl depressed in age, striate, marg sl inrolled when young |
| | GILL | | whitish, attached, distant |
bitty brown leaf mushroom
| | GEN | | minute mushroom, on hardwood leaf, solit |
| | ST | | 12x0.4mm, brown to pale at top, white puber |
| | CAP | | 7mm wide, convex, brown, dker in ctr, puber |
Marasmius haematocephalus [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | minute mushroom, on hardwood leaf (strongbark), sev scattered on nearby lvs |
| | ST | | 10-30x0.2mm, wiry tough, smooth, dk brown to almost blackish |
| | CAP | | 2-4mm wide, brick red to sl vinaceous, glab, min rough, dull, plicate, convex to bell, v thin |
| | GILL | | whitish, distant, barely attached, only 8 of them |
| | GEN | | small mushroom, on hardwood twig (~5mm wide), two at a small distance |
| | ST | | 12x0.8mm, same color as cap but darker, d min fuzzy all over, dker bel, hollow?, tough, will bend but won't break at all |
| | CAP | | 12mm wide, broadly convex, d min scurfy, striate, pale purplish brownish |
| | GILL | | pale pinkish/puplish, notched, clean, somewhat distant |
Panellus []
| | GEN | | small shelf mushroom, on semi-rotten pigeon plum? log, quite a few scattered closely |
| | ST | | lat, stubby or nonexistent, white fuzzy |
| | CAP | | ~15mm round in outline, v broadly convex, marg curled under, bright pale orangish yellowish, thinly white fibrillose, soft and flabby |
| | GILL | | whitish to creamy, close, radiate from stem, adnate, 2-3mm deep |
| | GEN | | small earthstar, in leaf litter, occ on twigs or small rotten limbs, whitish conspic mycelial mat surrounding it and binding leaves and twigs together |
| | CAP | | ~25mm wide when open, inner spore case ~10-12mm wide| outer | | skin orangish brown, roughened |
| inner | | surface pale buff, cracked |
peridium ~1.5mm wide| inner | | spore case pale to lt brown, completely uniform, min dusty/roughened |
terminal pore puckered and rupturing in very small hole |
| | SPORE | | mass cottony lt brown |
small brown duncecap
| | GEN | | small mushroom, on small hardwood twig (~5mm wide), solit |
| | ST | | 30x1.5mm, whitish, smooth, even, shiny, fragile and flexible but not actually breaking |
| | CAP | | 7mm wide by 7mm tall, duncecap, finely striate over halfway, marg not curled under, smooth, lt yellowish brown |
| | GILL | | pale watery creamy to almost brownish, nearly free, 1.5mm deep, close |
Leucoagaricus rubriceps []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, in hardwood leaf litter, solit |
| | ST | | 35-45x2-4mm, shiny-silky, whitish to yellowish brownish, even to enlarged below, smooth, fragile, flesh whitish to sl yellowish and v soft |
| | CAP | | 15-20mm wide, plane, finely striate to halfway, golden brown to rich reddish brown in center, smooth to min roughened |
| | VEIL | | partial, leaves fragile collar-like ring near top of stem |
| | GILL | | free, broad, close, pale yellowish |
Joshua Birkebak is IDing this for me.
Leucoagaricus roseiceps []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, in hardwood leaf litter, scattered over wide area |
| | ST | | 30-40x2-3mm, some sl enlarged at base, smooth, fragile, shiny, white |
| | CAP | | to 25mm wide, nearly plane, umbo, smooth, rose or peach to pale pinkish to almost white, center dk pinkish pr peachy red, striate at least at v marg, fragile |
| | VEIL | | partial, leaves sheath-like movable ring near top of stem, white to cap-colored |
| | GILL | | white, close, free, 2mm wide, clean |
Joshua Birkebak is IDing this for me.
Leucoagaricus serenus-group []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, in hardwood leaf litter, quite a few scattered over wide area |
| | ST | | 40x2-3mm, fragile, shiny smooth, white, translucent, enlarged at base |
| | CAP | | 15-30mm wide, convex to plane to uplifted, smooth, slimy when young, not striate, v subtle umbo that is sometimes faintly brown |
| | VEIL | | partial, leaves sheath near top of stem, white |
| | GILL | | white, close, free, clean, 2mm wide |
Joshua Birkebak is IDing this for me. The spores apparently are too small for
L. serenus.
Auricularia auricula []
Some nice fresh young ones.
Ficus []
Hypelate trifoliate []
Exothea paniculata []
Indian Key.
| | GEN | | small mushroom, on tamarind stump, solit |
| | ST | | 20x2-2.5mm, central, straight, even to sl clubbed, fuzzy like cap at base becoming less so near top |
| | CAP | | 20mm wide, depressed, strongly inrolled, extremely fuzzy (2mm long and very dense), rich deep brown, almost smooth and blackish in center |
| | GILL | | decur, lt brown, turns into pores/reticulation on stem, somewhat close, 1.5mm deep |
Pleurotus keys-creamy-spored []
| | GEN | | medium shelf mushroom, on dead standing fig |
Pycnoporus sanguineus []
Hexagonia hydnoides []
On tamarind stump. One quite fresh and still brown.
bizarre yellow spiky mold thingy
Trentepohlia []
On limber caper trunk overgrowing Graphis and Physcia.
Sapindus saponaria []
hermit crab
dacrymyces-like jelly
Capparis flexuosa []
Jacquemontia pentanthos []
| | LF | | ov, trunc to v cord, acute, pin vein, v thinly hairy, hairs branched at base |
| | INFL | | small clusters at br tips, bracts small |
| | PET | | joined, folded, sky blue, limb opens 90deg, to 20mm wide, throat white |
| | STYLE | | 1, 2 small stigmas, white |
| | FR | | subglob, 4-5mm wide, brown, smooth, dehisc |
Acacia farnesiana []
Abutilon theophrasti []
| | GEN | | bush, in open coastal scrub |
| | LF | | ov, cord, fan-vein, soft velvety both sides, serr, petiolate |
| | INFL | | solit term, no bracts, long pedicel |
| | PET | | 5, 12x15mm, solid orange-yellow, fan, spread 45deg |
| | FR | | 12 carpels, hirsute, looks like more than one seed per carpel |
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