BC, Wells Gray, 20080514
WGWI west, fungi, flowers, lichens.
Nice long walk with Crystal and Trevor and Trevor. Over to Hemp/Phillips Creek gorge, along rim, and back. Morels are out just a little bit lower than here. Also several nice flowers and grass, a few cup fungi, etc. etc.
Fungi
Morchella elata-group []
Verpa bohemica []
| | GEN | | among moss and duff, under aspen and doug fir, near a bunch of morels |
| | ST | | large, thick, pale golden-tan, smooth to scurfy, barely not circular cross-section, filled with white downy "pith" |
| | CAP | | pale yellowish brown, deeply wavy-wrinkled nut not pitted or honey-combed, attached like thimble on finger tip only at very tip |
| | APO | | | para | | long, perfectly even, rounded tips, narrower than asci, (6.2)6.9+/-0.58(7.7)um (n=12) |
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| | SPORE | | huge, 1 cell, oblong, smooth but with fine texture inside, 2 per ascus, (47)62+/-9.1(71)x(17)18+/-2.3(23)um (Q=(2.7)3.3+/-0.43(3.9)) (N=7), wall width ~1um |
Gyromitra gigas []
| | GEN | | on v rotten mossy damp conifer log |
| | ST | | v irreg, thick, short, folded cross-section, whitish, smooth |
| | CAP | | yellow-brown, weakly but highly-irregularly wrinkled and contorted, free from stem in place not in others, whitish underneath, half bunched and compact, the other half spreading a bit mantle-like, brittle flesh |
| | APO | | hymen clear| asci | | v long, cyl, smooth to sparingly covered with the same brownish encrustation that's on the para, 13-14um wide |
| para | | v abundant, v long, sparing branched, v sl thicker gradually to rounded tip but often perfectly even, no septae, d covered w brownish granular encrustation that is K+y, width (5.7)6.5+/-0.73(7.9)um (n=9) |
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Gyromitra esculenta []
Xeromphalina campanella []
| | GEN | | in small clusters to vast solid troops covering entire logs, on v rotten damp mossy conifers or in nearby soil |
| | ST | | wiry, dark, darkening to nearly black at base, brown to red-brown, faint white velvety sheen near base |
| | CAP | | ~1mm, orangish, strongly depressed, faintly striate, smooth |
| | GILL | | decur, widely spaced, contorted cross-walls and/or forks, pale yellowish, rather thick and blunt-edged, white spores plainly visible at 30x as sugary granular coating |
Lichenomphalia umbellifera [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | in small loose groups, rarely solit, on green scum on v rotten damp conifer logs |
| | ST | | ~1mm thick, whitish, scurfy at base |
| | CAP | | 1-1.5mm, strongly depressed, buffy-whitish, smooth, even colored, dull, plicate/scalloped marg in age |
| | GILL | | decur, well-spaced, dark reddish-brown emarginate in age, otherwise pale whitish, spores clearly visible at 30x as white granular coating |
| | THAL | | tiny green shiny translucent balls of algae, varying from v min to merely small varying by about a factor of 3 or 4? |
Nolanea pseudopapillata [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | on ground, always near rotting conifer logs though, always a few together or scattered over rel small area |
| | ST | | up to ~60x10mm, somewhat tough, flattened, hollow, but brittle in that it snaps readily when bent, brown and at best v faintly striate, conspicuously whitish tomentose at base |
| | CAP | | 40-50mm, convex, distinctly umbonate, umbo persistent dk brown, rest rich brown fading to grayish tan, Trevor calls it "cedar shakes" mushroom because it readily splits radially at maturity, translucent striatemaybe 30-50% the way in, margin extends 1-1.5mm past gills |
| | GILL | | barely attached, lt brown to pinkish, never whitish or grayish, relatively thick or blunt-edged, trama composed of remarkably weakly-woven long hyphae, no cystidia of any type found |
| | SPORE | | ~10x8um, conspicuously angular, 6-sided but not isodiametric, (8.2)9.1+/-0.52(10)x(6.5)7.1+/-0.32(7.8)um (Q=(1.1)1.2+/-0.079(1.4)) (N=20) |
I'm assuming the pinkish tinge on the gills was from pink spore print, but my samples are in no state to give me a print.
Arora keys it to Nolanea verna. The Pacific NW Council keys it to N. subcapitata or N. pseudopapillata? (Definitely not Entoloma.) PNWC says N. verna has orange-white stipe. N. subcapitata should have cheilocystidia.
Pseudoplectania nigrella [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | cup fungus, crowded clusters on rotten moist mossy conifer log |
| | CAP | | 10-15mm wide, jet black and v finely crinkly long-hairy outside esp around base, margs crowded together and forced vertical, shiny-matte inside, black with reddish tinge in places inside, ruggery tough, tan gelatinous? inside |
| | APO | | brownish tinge to hymen, asci and paraphyses both abundant| asci | | long, cyl, clear, smooth, sharp-edged, rounded tip, sl tapered near base, (230)250+/-21(290)x(11)12+/-0.77(13)um (Q=(17)20+/-2.0(23)) (N=6) |
| para | | long, straight, narrow, not expanded or tapering, tips rounded, a few septae, no brs found, smooth, clear |
| hairs | | narrow, brown, septate, curly-wacy |
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| | SPORE | | 8 per ascus, round, hyal, 1 cell, width (8.9)11+/-1.8(13)um (n=15) |
Octospora leucomela []
Identical macroscopically and microscopically to 20080415.
| | GEN | | on year-old thin small leaf (herb?), scattered all over it |
| | APO | | v minutely stalked, d short whitish shaggy, disk sl darker pinkish-brownish but still very pale| asci | | smallish, cyl but tapered below half, rounded tip, IKI rather golden brownish, smooth, width (3.6)4.7+/-0.71(5.7)um (n=6) |
| para | | longer than asci, thick, pointed end, septate, not at all constricted, smooth, IKI-to somewhat golden brown, all K- |
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| | SPORE | | comet-shaped, smooth?, (7.5)9.5+/-1.4(11)x(1.5)1.8+/-0.25(2.2)um (Q=(4.7)5.1+/-0.30(5.6)) (N=7), 2 cell, at least 4 per ascus possibly more?, packed into top half diagonally |
In Fungi of Switzerland they describe
Psilachnum and
Dasyscyphus as having lanceolate paraphyses projecting beyond the asci. The latter, particularly
D. rhytismatis, looks quite promising(!).
Flowers
Oryzopsis exigua []
| | LF | | blade v narr| lig | | membranous, acute(or shortly bifid but clearly not trunc) |
sheath open |
| | INFL | | appressed erect panicle, glab| spklt | | 1 fl, breaks ab glumes, scarcely comp |
| gls | | alike, 3 veins, outer two only at base, no awn, ~glab, ~4mm |
| lem | | 5 veins, d long strig all over, awn abrupt 1mm, ~3mm |
| pal | | 2 veins, strig, eq lem |
stam ~1.8mm |
Oryzopsis asperifolia []
| | LF | | 7-8mm wide, marg conspic ant barbellate, lig v short fringe, sheath open |
| | INFL | | v narr appress panicle, !glab| spklt | | 1 fl, scarcely comp |
| gls | | alike, 9 veins, glab, ~7mm |
| lem | | d short pub at v base, short fint pub up to ~75%, 6mm, awn at tip to 11mm, 9 veins, strongly enclosing palea |
anther 3mm |
Calypso bulbosa []
Disporum trachycarpum []
Berberis aquifolium []
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi []
Fragaria vesca []
Viola adunca adunca []
| | LF | | ovate, rounded base, obtuse tip, v shall cren, puber |
| | PET | | short slender spur about half length of petal blades, all petals blue with white, conspic white beard on two petals |
Lycopodium annotinum []
Aralia nudicaulis []
Antennaria neglecta attenuata []
Lichens
At base of cottonwood.
| | THAL | | deep olive to blackish, quite dull, broad warts all over, granular isidia toward center, strongly veined/wrinkled and paler greenish below |
Melanelia stygia []
Just a perfect specimen. The Umbilicaria below was also in the frame.
Umbilicaria torrefacta []
Peltigera cinnamomea []
Peltigera praetextata []
Peltigera membranacea []
Peltigera canina []
All of four of these Peltigera were on a single mossy rock.
Hypogymnia vitata (!) []
Apparently H. physodes turns black when sunburned,this was browning. It was also narrower, more pendent, etc. Apparently very unusual to see in this area.
Nephroma parile []
Parmelia hygrophila []
Parmelia sulcata []
Both Parmelia were fertile and on the same rock. I guess P. hygrophila has something intermediate between soredia and isidia?
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