Fungi from 2009 needing help

[JennyS]

The following are from different locations in 2009, confirmation / corrections and identification much appreciated.

1. Ascocoryne sarcoides? On dead Birch, November.


2. Daedaleopsis confragosa? Near base of mature (200 yr) Oak in parkland. November.


3. Mycena leucogala? Among moss on trunk of mature Ash in old woodland. November.


4. Russula ochroleuca? In mixed conifer and deciduous woodland. November


5. On coastal grassland. September.


6. At base of conifers at edge of upland field. December.

[flaxton]

Jenny
I can't be of much help but for what its worth.
No1 correct
No2 Not Daedaleopsis - although the upper surface in one of your photos does look like this species the pores are far too small and not elongated as they would be for the Blushing Bracket
No3 If it bled white liquid M galopus (I don't think it is dark enough to justify var nigra). If it didn't bleed it could be one or two others
No4 This does not look like R ochroleuca but I can't suggest anything better
No5 Entoloma

Mal

[fairplay]

Hi Jenny,

I'm not going to be much use either, but I'll have a go:

1. Andreas did an excellent thread on this recently, but I don't know how to find it, but I think this is the asexual state of A.sarcoides. The other as you know is Stereum hirsutum
2. As Mal says - not D.confragosa. With pores this small I would think Ganoderma, but the fruitbodies do not seem solid enough for G.applanatum or australe and they do not look right for G.resinaceum or pfeifferi either.
3. Mal's territory
4. I think these are R.ochroleuca, but you should have sniffed them to eliminate R.farinipes and fellea - the latter preferring Beech.
5. Entoloma 'summut'
6. Come on Jenny, you must know this one ('cause I don't) !

Neil.

[mollisia]

Hello Jenny,

no. 1 is indeed the imperfekt state of Ascocoryne sarcoides: Coryne dubia.
no. 2 is in my opinion an old Inonotus
no. 3 is in my opinion no Mycena. The fibrillous cap and the also somewhat fibrillous stipe make me think that this is an Entoloma. May be E. conferendum or something related, but could also be another one. Without microscope we will never know.
no. 4 I would suggest R. ochroleuca too, although I'm not too sure about it. R. fellea can be excluded in my opinion because of the stout fruitbody and the colour difference between gills and cap surface. In fellea they are nearly identical, in ochroleuca there is always a neat contrast. Another idea would be a Russula from the xerampelina-group, judiging from the strong yellow-brownish stipe base and from the seemingly ochre coloured gills. But may be this brownish hue is due to dryness, because when one look at the gill surface, they don't seem to be that ochraceous as the gill edge suggest.
no. 5 is an Entoloma spec.
no. 6 has a gelatinous cap surface, so there should be only Psilocybe and Galerina as choice. I would think of Galerina autumnalis, although the gill colour and the spores on the stipe should be more reddish-brown. If the colours are correct, it should be a Psilocybe.

best regards,
Andreas

[flaxton]

For No 3 although the cap might be showing "fibrillose" signs I think this is just the wet conditions and at the extreme right it could be showing the bloom I would expect on many Mycena. The stipe is IMO exactly right for Mycena. Andreas is right when he says without microscopic examination we will never know

Mal

[JennyS]

Thank you all for your replies, fungi seem to be as difficult (if not worse) than lichens to try and identify!

no. 6 has a gelatinous cap surface, so there should be only Psilocybe and Galerina as choice. I would think of Galerina autumnalis, although the gill colour and the spores on the stipe should be more reddish-brown. If the colours are correct, it should be a Psilocybe.

Photo colour is correct, and it was at the base of a live conifer in a field used for sheep and cattle.
Could it be a Dung roundhead - the illustration in Collins Complete Guide of Stropharia semiglobata var stercoraria shows a very similar stipe?

Come on Jenny, you must know this one ('cause I don't) !

Hi Neil - I don't know any of them!

[mollisia]

Originally Posted by JennyS

Could it be a Dung roundhead - the illustration in Collins Complete Guide of Stropharia semiglobata var stercoraria shows a very similar stipe?

Hello Jenny,

I have not heared of a "var. stercoraria" of S. semiglobata before, to be honest. And I would like to know the "var. semiglobata" then, which should not grow on dung, judging from the existence of a var. stercorea. I have never seen S. semiglobata growing on something else the dung, be it soemtimes quite old one. But may be I only know the var. stercorea?
Your fungus is not S. semiglobata in my opinion, because the cap is not round in yours but campanulate to conical and the gills are attached upwards adnate and not broadly as it should be in S. semiglobata. The cap of S. semiglobata in that age of your fungus realyy has gills that run straight from the cap margin to the stipe without the slightest bending. The whole cap looks exactly like you cut a ball in halfs.

best regards,
Andreas

[JennyS]

Thanks for the clarification Andreas, I was looking closer at the stem than the cap