Odd Polypore & Unknown for ID Help

[Lancashire Lad]

Found these today: -

No.1 - I think this is Winter Polypore - Polyporus brumalis, as I can't really think of anything else it might be. But it has a very odd shape - possibly been affected by something to cause that?
Found growing on a rotting log, in an area containing several normal P.brumalis.
Cap width approximately 40mm, Overall height, approx. 50mm.


No.2 - Possibly a Conocybe?
Found growing in moss covered soil adjacent to an old rotting trunk.
Largest cap approximately 20mm across.


Regards,
Mike.

[NickCantle]

I'd second your suggestions Mike- oddly formed former specimen though!

[Leif]

The second one could be Galerina marginata (presumably on buried wood), or a Conocybe in the C. arrhenia group. I think it is more likely to be a Conocybe, as you suggest. Unfortunately there are ~3 species which cannot as far as I know be separated without use of a microscope.

The first one is somewhat deformed methinks!

[Chris Yeates]

hi Mike

given the time of year the second one is almost certainly Conocybe aporos (or as we shall all be calling it soon Pholiotina aporos . . . )

one look at the spores (which lack a germ-pore) and you're there

send me a spore print and I'll tell you (I'm glad people are sending me the odd thing to look at - I've hardly been out so far this year; I'm currently trying to produce a comprehensive check-list of Yorkshire fungi - over 4,800 species - and just checking and updating the nomenclature is a mammoth task, there have been so many name changes and redispositions of species in recent years, it's doing my head in )

cheers

Chris