Fungi A to Z Alerts

[goosey]

Sorry if I have posted in the wrong place, but the Fungi A-Z and ID pages seem to be opening in a strange way. I noticed yesterday and it is the same to day.

[cybershot]

Originally Posted by goosey

Sorry if I have posted in the wrong place, but the Fungi A-Z and ID pages seem to be opening in a strange way. I noticed yesterday and it is the same to day.

They look OK to me Shirley. Try a reload/refresh page

David

[goosey]

I know what the problem is now - When I am logged in everything is fine, when I am not, the index which runs across the top of the page (home, reference, forums, Gallery etc) are all listed vertically so there is a big white space before you get to the images. I shall just have to make all the effort to log in .

[mollisia]

Hallo,

first of all I have to congratulate you to the idea of this A-Z which is a useful reference in my eyes. It would be surely be more and more valuable, the more species are into it, including description, so that one has a direct possibility for comparism. I suppose it is only ment for species found and pictured in Great Britain, and not for species depicted elsewhere even when known to occure in GB?

Three things I have found which seem to be worth correcting or discussing:

Paxillus atrotomentosus:
Tapinella atrotomentosus is also existing under the name Paxillus atrotomentosus. I think the genus Tapinella is accepted widely and I would suggest to bring it together under this name.

Tapesia fusca:
Mollisia and Tapesia are surely synonyms, as the type species M. cinerea and T. fusca are congeneric. This is accepted almost unanimousely nowadays. As Mollisia is a conserved name over Tapesia, it should may be better read Mollisia fusca.
Besides that, the picture clearly is not M. fusca, which always is seated on a blackish, +/- clearly developped subiculum. Also the subiculum is not a generic character and not even a species character in many species (e.g. lividofusca), I never came across a fusca without subiculum and I have examined more then hundred collections. Also the color of fusca is a more bluish grey. But this can be due to foto colour.

Psathyrella artemisiae:
I think this pictures is perhaps P. hirta. The veil seems to be too scaly and too copiouse for artemisiae, which has a more web-like veil. Also it looks like as if it is growing on dung, which I have never observed with P. artemisiae.

best regards,
Andreas

[cybershot]

Thank you for bringing this to our attention Andreas.

With regard to the Paxillus/Tapinella entries I have dealt with this by an Additional Note to the Paxillus atrotomentosus entry and the existing Tapinella atrotomentosa - Velvet Rollrim entry indicates that Paxillus atromentosus and Agaricus atrotomentosus are synonyms for this species. Furthermore if the moderators deem that the Paxillus entry is now superfluous then they may well delete it but I do not have the authority to do so. In my opinion it seems sensible to leave it in situ as a cross reference to a long held and oft times used alternative name.

I hope the orignators of the Tapesia/Molissia and the Psathyrella entries are happy to confirm your findings and agree to the necessary amendments.

Regards

David

[mollisia]

Hallo,

some more suggestions:

Bjerkandera adusta:
The main picture shows Ustulina/Kretzschmaria/Hypoxylon deusta/um

Boletus subtomentosus:
This is Boletus/Xerocomus porosporus

Clitocybe sinopcia:
This seems rather to be Lepista flaccida.

Pholiota lenta:
This is another picture of Ph. gummosa.

Pholiota lucifera:
This shows an Armillaria species. Because of the fugacious ring zone it seems to be probably Armillaria borealis.

best regards,
Andreas

[mollisia]

Originally Posted by cybershot

Thank you for bringing this to our attention Andreas.

With regard to the Paxillus/Tapinella entries I have dealt with this by an Additional Note to the Paxillus atrotomentosus entry and the existing Tapinella atrotomentosa - Velvet Rollrim entry indicates that Paxillus atromentosus is a synonym for this species. Furthermore if the moderators deem that the Paxillus entry is now superfluous then they may well delete it but I do not have the authority to do so. In my opinion and it seems sensible to leave it in situ as a cross reference to a long held and oft times used alternative name.

yes, you may be right, because one would search for it under the better known genus Paxillus. But then what with Parasola etc., which even less people have heared of (at least in Germany), as a segragate of former Coprinus.

I hope the orignators of the Tapesia/Molissia and the Psathyrella entries are happy to confirm your findings and agree to the necessary amendments.

Or confirm the determination. I do not insist on the Psathyrella, it was only a suggestion. With Mollisia/Tapesia fusca I'm sure, at least what concerns my definition of the species.

best regards,
Andreas

[KeenTeen17]

I just added one for lycoperdon molle and Ganoderma pfeifferi but my computer crashed and there is now 3 ganoderma pfeifferis

Could one of you fun-guys just give it a quick check over?

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hallo,

some more suggestions:

Bjerkandera adusta:
The main picture shows Ustulina/Kretzschmaria/Hypoxylon deusta/um

Boletus subtomentosus:
This is Boletus/Xerocomus porosporus

Clitocybe sinopcia:
This seems rather to be Lepista flaccida.

Pholiota lenta:
This is another picture of Ph. gummosa.

Pholiota lucifera:
This shows an Armillaria species. Because of the fugacious ring zone it seems to be probably Armillaria borealis.

best regards,
Andreas

Pholiota lenta was verified by Mykonik and I'm happy that it is correct.

John

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

I just added one for lycoperdon molle and Ganoderma pfeifferi but my computer crashed and there is now 3 ganoderma pfeifferis

Could one of you fun-guys just give it a quick check over?

I've deleted the duplicates KT

John