Interesting fungi from Anston Stones

[FungiJohn]

Hello all

On a recent visit to Anston Stones with Les I found the following fungi:



Nick L suggested it could be either Limacella delicata var. Glioderma OR less likely L. delicata var. Vinosorubescens.

Looking at this in FoS I note that Andreas has done much research into this species.

Any thoughts / comments Andreas much appreciated

I also found what may be Lepiota forquignonii, which would be a real bonus:



Both are going to Kew

Unfortunately Les never saw either of these as he had to leave early He did however show me hundreds of Lycoperdon mammiforme which were in excellent form We also had a nice find of Macrolepiota mastoidea.

John and Les

[mollisia]

Hello John and Les,

Limacella glioderma would be my favorite too, although the colour is quite dark. But in my opinion more in the range of glioderma then in vinosorubescens. The last one is drier on the cap and often becomes cracked like Xerocomus chrysenteron.

The Lepiota looks very much like forquignonii, a species which I'm still searching since many years and have never found it.

Watch out, biotops with these two species will surely bring much more interesting Lepiotaceae!

We have a great flush of fungi here for 4 weeks now, and the bolets, amanitas, russulas and Lactarii are now going back and things like Hygrophorus, Lepiota, Ramariopsis etc. are popping out. So as we had so many rarities yet, may be Lepiota forquignonii will be the this years "species of the year" for me :-))

best regards,
Andreas

best regards,
Andreas

[FungiJohn]

Many thanks for this Andreas, much appreciated!

I'll update when confirmed by Kew.

John & Les

PS We did try to find more today but couldn't ... but will keep an eye out for them!!

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Watch out, biotops with these two species will surely bring much more interesting Lepiotaceae!
best regards,
Andreas

Andreas is spot on - just off the top of my head (from when I used to work at Rotherham Museum and visited the site a fair number of times) Anston Stones has produced Melanophyllum haematospermum, Macrolepiota excoriata, Leucoagaricus badhamii and Lepiota aspera . . . .

the L. forquignonii - which I have only ever seen in illustrations - looks very likely; and would be new to Yorkshire

I'm going to be after your records soon FJ - you have promised!

cheers

Chris

[FungiJohn]

Don’t worry Chris you shall have them all

Again, when Les left I found several interesting species including another lepiota and a very ‘powdery’ violaceous species, both growing in soil / wood debris amongst moss in vicinity to Ash and Lime.





The stones is certainly producing some interesting finds

John and .... Les (part time)

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by FungiJohn

The stones is certainly producing some interesting finds

John and .... Les (part time)

This one looks like Cystolepiota bucknallii - did it have a distinctive smell?

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by FungiJohn

Don’t worry Chris you shall have them all

Again, when Les left I found several interesting species including another lepiota and a very ‘powdery’ violaceous species, both growing in soil / wood debris amongst moss in vicinity to Ash and Lime.





The stones is certainly producing some interesting finds

John and .... Les (part time)

Might your second be a Cystolepiota, something like Cystolepiota bucknallii?

Melanie

Oh Chris got in there first ....

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

This one looks like Cystolepiota bucknallii - did it have a distinctive smell?

Chris

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

Might your second be a Cystolepiota, something like Cystolepiota bucknallii?

Melanie

Oh Chris got in there first ....

Thank you both. Yes, it does indeed! No distinctive smell Chris!

Found in several places in the Stones

John

[mollisia]

Hello,

the violet one is certainly Cystolepiota bucknallii, and don't tell us that it didn't damn stink like I-don't-know-what! Tricholoma sulphureum has the same horrible smell.

The first one is a small Echinoderma species, which I have also never found yet. May be it is Echinoderma jacobii, but it requieres microscopy.

best regards,
Andreas

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hello,

the violet one is certainly Cystolepiota bucknallii, and don't tell us that it didn't damn stink like I-don't-know-what! Tricholoma sulphureum has the same horrible smell.

The first one is a small Echinoderma species, which I have also never found yet. May be it is Echinoderma jacobii, but it requieres microscopy.

best regards,
Andreas

Thanks Andreas

As you can imagine I was only inches away from the Cystolepiota bucknallii when taking the photographs and even when I took samples the smell did not strike me as been

However, on opening the container now I can clearly detect the smell of coal tar The wind must have been blowing in the opposite direction

Thanks for the steer on the Echinoderma jacobii!

John