Scarborough Bioblitz June 2-4th

[SheffieldLass]

For those who think there won't be much fungi around at this time of year (though luckily we have had some rain recently) this was my list from two forays totalling about 6 hours in the field near Scarborough (and considerably more hours at my desk trying to id them ). Most of these were the bigger fungi with caps and stalks ....

Agrocybe ochracea
Agrocybe praecox
Bolbitius titubans
Calocybe gambosa
Clitocybe fragrans
Coleosporium tussilaginis on Scots Pine
Coleosporium tussilaginis on Coltsfoot
Coprinellus micaceus
Coprinellus radians
Coprinopsis lagopus
Daedaleopsis confragosa
Entoloma, To genus only
Entoloma conferendum
Entoloma cuneatum, Uncertain-species level
Entoloma versatile
Fuligo septica
Galerina, Uncertain-genus level
Galerina clavata
Hypoxylon multiforme
Inocybe lacera
Melampsora hypericorum on Slender St John’s Wort
Melanoleuca cognata
Mycena silvae-nigrae
Panaeolus cinctulus
Parasola kuehneri
Parasola lilatincta
Phallus impudicus
Pholiotina nemoralis
Pluteus cervinus
Psathyrella canoceps
Psathyrella obtusata
Psathyrella piluliformis
Psathyrella potteri
Psathyrella spadiceogrisea
Suillus grevillei
Tephrocybe, Uncertain-genus level
Trametes versicolor
Tubaria confragosa
Xylaria, To genus only


I think Chris has a much bigger list of much smaller fungi ...

Melanie

[Chris Yeates]

indeed Melanie

I had suggested beforehand that we should be able to get between 120 and 150 species (though at the time that seemed way too ambitious) we appear to be close to 130 species between us, which is excellent for fungi in a dry June; I too have had to spend a lot of time at the microscope - I'll post a few images on the appropriate threads and link to them from this one); there will be more fungi to add to the list as I collected some adult sheep and lamb dung (from the same spot to see if there area any differences in what appears) and - natch! - donkey dung (though not from the beach, of course - too sandy and, heaven forfend, one might get funny looks; mutterings about "good for the roses" not that convincing . . . )
Annoyingly I noticed stream foam in Peasholm Park, but didn't have my kit with me - that could have added half a dozen or more species to the list.

I was going to add hosts/substrates to the following list but it would take up too much time I could spend actually mycologising - "two days in the field, two weeks at the microscope" is proving all too true. I have highlighted what I think are the standout records with an asterisk.

Basidiomycota
Agaricales
Lachnella villosa
Entylomatales
Entyloma helioscadii *
Pucciniales
Cumminsiella mirabilissima
Milesina scolopendrii
Phragmidium violaceum
Puccinia epilobii
Puccinia lagenophorae
Puccinia malvacearum
Puccinia oxalidis
Puccinia phragmitis
Puccinia poarum
Puccinia pulverulenta
Puccinia punctiformis
Puccinia caricina var. ribesii-pendulae
Puccinia smyrnii
Puccinia tanaceti
Puccinia veronicae
Puccinia vincae
Uromyces muscari
Ustilaginales
Ustilago avenae

Ascomycota
Capnodiales
Cercospora mercurialis
Ramularia didyma
Ramularia heraclei
Ramularia rubella
Chaetothyriales
Dictyochaeta fertilis
Diaporthales
Cryptodiaporthe salicella
Cytospora occulta
Cytospora salicis
Diaporthe alnea
Diaporthe eres
Diaporthe nobilis
Diaporthe samaricola
Melanconium stromaticum
Phomopsis durandiana
Diatrypella quercina
Leptospora rubella
Erysiphales
Erysiphe euonymi-japonici
Erysiphe galeopsidis
Erysiphe galii
Erysiphe cichoracearum var. cichoracearum
Podosphaera aphanis
Podosphaera fusca
Podosphaera leucotricha
Podosphaera spiraeae
Helotiales
Botrytis cinerea
Botryotinia globosa
Calloria neglecta
Calycellina phalaridis
Dactylaria candidula *
Discocistella grevillei
Hyalopeziza millepunctata
Lachnum carneolum var longisporum
Lachnum controversum
Lachnum fuscescens var. fuscescens
Lachnum nudipes
Lasiobelonium mollissimum
Pirrottaea nigrostriata
Pyrenopeziza pulveracea
Pyrenopeziza revincta
Tapesia kneiffii
Trochila craterium
Trochila ilicina
Trochila laurocerasi
Pleosporales
Alternaria alternata
Alternaria tenuissima
Boeremia hedericola
Coniothyrium phormii
Dendryphion comosum
Dictyosporium elegans
Hendersonia sarmentorum var. lauri *
Leptosphaeria acuta
Nodulosphaeria centaureae
Paraphaeosphaeria glaucopunctata
Periconia byssoides
Periconia cookei
Phaeosphaeria eustoma
Phaeosphaeria fuckelii
Venturia maculiformis
Sordariales
Sordaria fimicola
Taphrinales
Buerenia inundata
Taphridium umbelliferarum
incertae sedis
Apiospora montagnei
Asterosporium asterospermum
Diplosporonema delastrei
Discogloeum veronicae
Pleurophragmium acutum
Torula herbarum
Troposporella monospora *

Zygomycota
Pilaira anomala

Oomycota
Peronospora agrestis *
Peronospora ranunculi
Peronospora viciae
Plasmopara densa
Plasmopara nivea
Albugo candida
Albugo tragopogonis

for what "incertae sedis" meaans see: Incertae sedis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chris

[poschiavanus]

Congratulations to both of you.

I'm wondering at the area you covered and the absence of a couple of the Taphrina species on Prunus which I'd have thought were 'low-hanging fruit'

Bioblitzing feels very odd if one tries to maximise record numbers rather than interestingness of the survey.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by poschiavanus

. . . .

Bioblitzing feels very odd if one tries to maximise record numbers rather than interestingness of the survey.

I think I know what you're getting at Posch

I suspect it was also largely true for Melanie, but everything I recorded was done entirely "unvehicle-assisted"; I'm a Scarborough lad, so know the area well; I did also (as a sideline) record some 225 plant species, plus some leaf-miners/galls - also, as a nice surprise, a calling quail in an otherwise very unpromising arable area I had to walk through between 'good' sites . . . .

as a one-off it was quite fun and I've made a few new vice-county records (with at least one new county one), and I strongly suspect I wouldn't have recorded as many species had I spent a leisurely survey of a single known fungal hot-spot

cheers

Chris

[Chris Yeates]

see Micro fungi

for details of the Pirottaea (incorrectly spelled above)

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by poschiavanus

Congratulations to both of you.

I'm wondering at the area you covered and the absence of a couple of the Taphrina species on Prunus which I'd have thought were 'low-hanging fruit'

Bioblitzing feels very odd if one tries to maximise record numbers rather than interestingness of the survey.

I just did the usually rewarding spots in my very local area, i.e. parts of Wykeham Forest, which I'd have visited anyway Bioblitz or not .... These sites are coniferous-birch woodland/acid heath which also has some productive wood chip piles, and a shady/damp stream valley wet woodland area which has a number of fire sites, and of course my garden. As Chris was visiting some meres and broadleaf woodland it meant that between us a few 'typical' habitats in the Scarborough area were sampled. I also knew he'd be looking at different things to me.

I did use the car, just to save my legs between spots, but my area was within a 3 mile radius of my house (most within 1/2 mile). I also did some birding at Scarborough North Bay on Thurs morning (a proper count), and in Wykeham Forest whilst looking for fungi ... eyes for the fungi, ears for the birds (but just a species list, not numbers). And also did a rather basic tick list of some of the wild flowers in the area, things big and distinctive enough to not require careful scrutiny and whose names I know - so a rather limited list (I printed off the Natural History Museum Post Code Flora list for YO13 to work on, which was useful).

Melanie