BC, Wells Gray, 20080415
WGWI west, various fungi. 

Pond/wetlands from the causeway. 

Walked across pond then down to meadow by horse trail and back, by various routes. 

Paraphyses tips, at 400x, in water, showing texture. Spores, at 400x, in IKI. Asci and spores, at 400x, in IKI.  Paraphyses showing IKI+ blue \Asci and spores, at 400x, in water. Ascus and spores, at 400x, in water. Hymenium, at 100x, in water. Side view, at 30x. Straight on, at 30x. Slightly at an angle, at 30x. Beautiful little cluster, quarter view. Beautiful little cluster, top view. 

Octospora leucoloma [] [voucher] 

 GEN tiny cup fungus, clustered on moss in deer trail
 CAP 2-6mm wide, smooth to faintly white-powdery outside, intensely danger-orange inside, somewhat concave to nearly flat in age, tapering gradually but no clear stalk, marg min ragged
 APO hymen clear
para long slender, bent at sl expanded rounded tips, covered w/ little granules that are IKI+ bluish or greenish, no brs found, (2.5)3.7+/-0.80(5.1)um (N=8)
asci long, cyl, IKI-, no thickened tip at any stage that I found, spores 8 in 1 row packed diagonally, (190)220+/-23(250)x(11)12+/-0.89(13)um (Q=(13)17+/-2.6(22)) (N=8)
spore fusiform, some larger drops and many smaller drops, no texture, IKI-, (24)26+/-0.84(27)x(8.7)9.6+/-0.53(10)um (Q=(2.4)2.7+/-0.15(3.0)) (N=17)
Keyed using "Mushrooms of Idaho and the Pac NW: Discomycetes", E.  Tylutki, 1979.

Asci and hymenium, at 1000x, in IKI. Ascus, at 1000x, in IKI.  Shows texture of the ascus walls. Paraphyses, at 1000x, in IKI.  Shows some short side-branches and granules stuck to tips. Asci and spores, at 1000x, in IKI.  Shows texture fairly well. Hymenium and thalline hyphae, at 100x, in IKI. Ascus and spores, at 1000x, in water. Ascus, at 1000x, in water. Epihymenial granules, at 1000x, in water. Hymenium and thalline hyphae, at 100x, in water. Cups, side view, at 30x. Old cup, at 30x. straight on. Cup, at 30x, straight on. Cup, at 30x, slightly off-angle. Scattered small clusters. Nice cluster, quarter, a bit out of focus. 

brown cup [voucher] 

 GEN tiny cup fungus, clustered on rotting aspen leaves in deer trail
 CAP 1-3mm wide, strongly urceolate to cup-shaped, inner surface rich deep brown, outer surface v shaggy brown to white below, tapers broadly but no real stalk, flesh hyaline and strongly IKI+ red
 APO hymen sl brownish
paraphyses tips brown w distinct ~1um granules, v thin and long w some short side brs, tips not significantly expanded, IKI-, (1.9)2.2+/-0.27(2.8)um (n=9)
asci long, cyl, IKI-, 8 spores in one row end to end, (100)110+/-16(140)x(7.2)8.1+/-0.89(9.7)um (Q=(11)14+/-3.2(20)) (N=6)
spore small, clear, faintly textured at maturity, ellip, no noticeable drops, IKI-, (11)12+/-0.69(13)x(5.7)6.3+/-0.28(6.8)um (Q=(1.7)1.9+/-0.12(2.3)) (N=16)
granules (1.2)1.9+/-0.71(3.3)um (n=14))

Clump on my desk. 

Baeomyces rufus [] [voucher] 

 GEN stubble lichen, on soil on wet rock
 THAL main thallus thick lt greenish gray granular crust (corticate), apothecia on 2mm tall paler stalks
 APO brownish irreg smooth blobs on top of stalks, to 1.5mm wide

Vulpicida pinastri [] [voucher] 

These are coming out all over the place as the snow retreats.  The nicest specimens seem to have been hidden all winter under the snow.

Peltigera horizontalis [] [voucher] 

 GEN pelt lichen, on mossy rock
 THAL brown to lt gray, shiny, smooth, margins ruffled and raised but tips turn down sharply at ends, brown nearly throughout bel with elongate distinct white interstices, black tufted rhiz in rows near marg, no hairs or soredia or isidia or lobules
 APO common, dk reddish brown, horizontal and plane

Paraphyses tips, at 1000x, in K. Spores, at 1000x, in water. Spores, at 1000x, in water. Spores in asci, at 1000x, in water. Epihymenium and spore, at 1000x, in water.  Granules clearly visible. Apo section, at 100x, in water. Close-up of apothecia, at 30x. Dirty blackened thallus. 

Lecanora [] 

 GEN crust lichen, on volcanic boulder
 THAL ashy white but covered with black "crud" all over, margin indistinct, verruculose? 
 APO abundant and crowded, lecanorine, algae in continuous ample layer under apo, disk pale orange-brown to dark brown and often mottled
epi brown, v d granular(dissolve in K)
hymen hyal, hypo hyal with some large crystals among algae
para v thin, clear, always at least one br, tips abruptly expanded with distinct brown cap
asci cylindric to somewhat clavate, I+ blue, I-conical axial channel penetrate completely
all K-
 SPORE 8 per ascus, ellip to oblong, hyal, 1 cell, smooth, few bubbles with other textured stuff inside, (10)13+/-1.2(14)x(5.3)7.7+/-1.1(10)um (Q=(1.3)1.7+/-0.20(2.1)) (N=19)
Mmmm, doesn't look like Nash et al. covers this species.

Paraphyses, at 1000x, in IKI. Ascus, at 1000x, in IKI. Needle crystals, at 1000x, in K. Spores in ascus, at 1000x, in water. Spores in ascus, at 1000x, in water. Immature asci, at 1000x, in water. Rim of apo section, at 1000x, in water. Apo section, at 100x, in water. Close-up of apothecia, at 30x. Two species side by side? With some moss, shaded. With some moss, in sun. Gorgeous large specimen. 

Aspicilia cinerea [] [voucher] 

 GEN crust lichen, on volcanic boulder
 THAL ashy-white, indistinct margin, distinctly angular areolate, K+r (creating radiating needle crystals)
 APO aspicilioid, black concave disk, no pruina, algae im margins and under edges, epi brown and not granular, hymen hyal and I+ faint blue, subhym hyal
para moniliform, sev globose cells near tip, elongate and less constricted in middle, some brs, I+reddish
asci vast majority immature, I+ v pale blue walls and thick tip, no structure seen in tip, inside I+ reddish and textured, thickening significantly toward tip at maturity
 SPORE 8 per ascus, ellip, large bubble with other "stuff" inside, smooth, hyal, 1 cell, (12)13+/-1.5(16)x(8.5)9.5+/-0.78(10)um (Q=(1.2)1.4+/-0.13(1.6)) (N=6)

Phellinus igniarius [] 

 GEN shelf fungus, on aspen
 SPORE (4.6)5.2+/-0.46(6.4)x(3.3)3.8+/-0.39(4.7)um (Q=(1.2)1.3+/-0.12(1.5)) (N=11), still can't find anything that might look like an hymenial setae
Spores are still too large, and lack of setae convince me that I'm still seeing P. igniarius.  I can't find any clear statement anywhere that P. i. grows on aspen, just the related (but not mutually exclusive) statement that P. tremulae only grows on aspen.  It seems fairly clear to me, now, that P. i. can grow on both.

Nice branch on my desk, closer. Nice branch on my desk. 

Nectria cinnabarina [] 

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