It doesn't get any easier

[flaxton]

Hi folks

You would think as some point it would start to get easier to identify these little b.......s.
I had a wander round some boggy woodland today and found lots of "interesting" stuff.


The first was a large (7cm cap)Psathyrella which turned out to be P spadiceogrisea. Ok I know it is supposed to be a spring species but with both cheilo and pleurocystidia it cannot be the other large one normally found at this time of year P candolleana.

Next a LARGE (it is already starting to sound like someone foraying at Clumber) Volvariella.


What was left of the cap after the local wildlife had played with it gave me an overall size of 16cm with the stipe 3cm at its narrowest and more than 4cm at the base. The only thing I could come up with was V gloiocephala even though this is shown as maximum cap12cm and stipe 1.5

Next on soil

Is this a Humaria hemisphaerica?

Just along side it was this



Suggestions welcome.

Finally this little beauty


The asci tips are blued with Meltzers but a pointer in the right direction would be appreciated.

I did manage to identify some myself Calyptella capula Russula betularum under a stand of Oak (but there were some very small birch saplings) a Pluteus growing on pine with clamp connections which should have made it P pouzarianus but as I could only find them in the mycelium at the base and not in the cap I think it is just P cervinus.
I am now working on the two Scutellinia so will be back to look at all your suggestions later.

Mal

[Ken Burgess]

Originally Posted by flaxton

Just along side it was this

This is Laccaria and it looks to be Laccaria tortilis.

Originally Posted by flaxton

Finally this little beauty

What about Encoelia furfuracea?

Ken

[FungiJohn]

Hi Mal

No. it doesn't get any easier

I think the 'Humaria hemisphaerica' may be a Geopora, possibly sumneriana

The others are nice

I've spent most of the day on the black asco on birch. It took 11 slides before I found a single spore (I think). Can spores be 'mushroom' shaped!

John

[Ditiola]

John
Was the asco a Pyrenomycete I have had similar problems looking for spores in these, then someone told me that the fruit bodies often remain intact for months after all the spores have finished.

Mal
I found Laccaria tortilis this year for the first time and they looked just like your specimens

Peter

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by Ditiola

John
Was the asco a Pyrenomycete I have had similar problems looking for spores in these, then someone told me that the fruit bodies often remain intact for months after all the spores have finished.

Mal
I found Laccaria tortilis this year for the first time and they looked just like your specimens

Peter

I've updated the thread Peter

Laccaria tortilis looks good too!

John

[flaxton]

Thanks for that folks.
Ken as ever spot on. Encoelia furfuracea is a perfect fit. Laccaria tortilis with large echidnate spores
. This is my first find Peter and I have only seen it once before and I seem to remember the fruitbody was much larger on that occasion.

John
With spores of 22-23 x 13 and the apothica less than 1cm on heavy soil and thick walled hairs 7.5 Ellis and Ellis gives Geopora tenuis so thanks for the pointer.

With Scutellinia subhirtella and these two Typhula setipes and erythropus





and still some to do I think it was a good day.

Mal

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by flaxton

. . . . Scutellinia subhirtella . . . .

Mal

I'm rapidly coming to the opinion that this is the commonest Scutellinia in Yorkshire

cheers

Chris