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fairplay · #1 (**permalink**) 05-11-2009, 10:36 PM

I have just got home from another session of the BMS Foray in Suffolk.

Yesterday, in a very special wood, a member of the small group I was with, found a Ganoderma sp. with the nipple gall on it, but on closer inspection a whitish/yellow resupinate fungus was growing all over the hymenium including the galls.

Today, this was properly examined and it was determined that the resupinate fungus was not only new to Suffolk, but only the 2nd record for Britain.

Unfortunately, I left my notebook behind and cannot give you the name at the moment, but the Ganoderma was checked out too, and the spores measured, and this turned out to be G.australe, thus this became the 1st official record (in Europe, I believe) of the nipple gall occurring on G.australe
But then 2 members mentioned that they too had come across nipple gall on what they too believed to be G. australe.

This means that a lot of records will now have to be looked at again, but worse, mycologists no longer have an easy way of saying a certain bracket is G.applanatum just by noticing the galls.

Sorry about that.

Neil.

flaxton · #2 (**permalink**) 05-11-2009, 10:46 PM

Thanks a bunch Neil

Mal

thelawnet · #3 (**permalink**) 05-11-2009, 11:55 PM

In other words, G. applanatum doesn't really exist at all, we can just call everything australe.

fairplay · #4 (**permalink**) 06-11-2009, 12:06 AM

How do you come to this conclusion ?

Neil.

thelawnet · #5 (**permalink**) 06-11-2009, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by fairplay

How do you come to this conclusion ?

Neil.

I was being facetious, hence the smiley.

fairplay · #6 (**permalink**) 06-11-2009, 07:30 AM

Ah, I see !

Neil.

fairplay · #7 (**permalink**) 22-11-2009, 04:14 PM

In the rush to write things down, I got my species mixed up, the one which turned out to be the second record for Britain was in fact Phellinus wahlbergii and another find from the same wood which was thought to be the same, has now been determined as Phellinus torulosus.

The resupinate fungus growing on the Ganoderma australe (with nipple galls) was Sistotrema sernanderi.

We had with us Dan Dvorak from the Czech Republic who has done a lot of research in Europe and has concluded that it is only the species of Flat Footed fly known as Agathomyia wankowiczi which causes the galls in Ganoderma spp.

Other members present said they too had previously found nipple galls on G.australe, but did not mention anything as they assumed it may be a different fly, so we did learn something new to science that night.

Neil.

Jim Ford · #8 (**permalink**) 22-11-2009, 04:28 PM

You fungiphiles should stay in more!
;^)

Jim

fairplay · #9 (**permalink**) 22-11-2009, 07:21 PM

Quote from Teddy Bears Picnic - "If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise"

That's why we like to get out more Jim !

Neil.

Alantb · #10 (**permalink**) 23-11-2009, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by fairplay

In the rush to write things down, I got my species mixed up, the one which turned out to be the second record for Britain was in fact Phellinus wahlbergii and another find from the same wood which was thought to be the same, has now been determined as Phellinus torulosus.

The resupinate fungus growing on the Ganoderma australe (with nipple galls) was Sistotrema sernanderi.

We had with us Dan Dvorak from the Czech Republic who has done a lot of research in Europe and has concluded that it is only the species of Flat Footed fly known as Agathomyia wankowiczi which causes the galls in Ganoderma spp.

Other members present said they too had previously found nipple galls on G.australe, but did not mention anything as they assumed it may be a different fly, so we did learn something new to science that night.

Neil.

I like this 'Flat-Footed Fly', wasn't there a Jazz Standard called that? Cab Calloway I think. Cheers, Alan