Pelham Bay Park - Mar 14, 2026

A walk in the Hunter Island section. There are signs of spring, and some unusual ascos and lichens. Roman Kosoy found Cryptosphaeria ligniota on populus bark. Zihao Wang found Pycnothelia papillaria, a nipple lichen as well as Peltigera didactyla.

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Apiosporina morbosa
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
Biscogniauxia marginata
Chlorociboria sp.
Chlorosplenium chlora
Creosphaeria sassafras
Cryptosphaeria ligniota
on Populus alba
Daldinia sp.
Dasyscyphella nivea
Diatrype sp.
on oak
Endothia gyrosa
Eupezizella aureliella
Eutypa sp.
Hyaloscypha sp.
Hypoxylon rubiginosum
Hysterobrevium mori
Immotthia atrograna
Mollisiaceae sp.
Nemania sp.
*Nitschkia confertula
Orbiliaceae sp.
Patellaria crassispora
Penicillium sp.
in an acorn
Peroneutypa scoparia
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
Rosellinia subiculata
Rosellinia corticium
Whalleya microplaca
 

Crusts & Parchment

Aegerita candida
Athelia sp.
Botryobasidium sp.
Dendrothele sp.
on hardwood bark
Heterobasidion irregulare
Hydnoporia olivacea
Peniophora albobadia
Peniophora incarnata
Peniophora cinerea
Serpula himantioides
Stereum complicatum
Stereum fasciatum
Stereum lobatum
Tulasnella violea
Xylobolus frustulatus
Xylobolus subpileatus
 

Cyphelloid Fungi

Merismodes sp.
 

Gasteromycetes

Apioperdon pyriforme
*Crucibulum parvulum
 

Gilled Fungi

Flammulina velutipes
Mycena sp.
Panellus stipticus
Pleurotus ostreatus
Schizophyllum commune
Tubaria furfuracea
 

Jelly Fungi

Auricularia sp.
Exidia crenata
Myxarium nucleatum
Naematelia aurantia
parasitizing Stereum
 

Lichens

Candelaria concolor
*Candelariella efflorescens
**Candelariella vitellina
*Chrysothrix caesia
*Cladonia spp.
Flavoparmelia caperata
Lecanora sp.
*Lepraria sp.
*Megasporaceae sp.
Aspicilia sp. or similar
*Myriolecis dispersa
*Parmelia sulcata
*Parmotrema sp.
**Peltigera didactyla
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Phaeophyscia sp.
cf. orbicularis
Physcia millegrana
Physcia stellaris
Physcia thomsoniana
Porpidia albocaerulescens
Punctelia rudecta
**Pycnothelia papillaria
*Xanthocarpia sp.
cf. feracissima
*Xanthosyne varians
 

Myxomycetes

Lycogala sp.
Metatrichia vesparia
Oligonema sp.
*Stemonitopsis sp.
 

Poroid Fungi

Fulvifomes robiniae
Irpex lacteus
Pseudoinonotus dryadeus
Trametes betulina
Trametes conchifer
Trametes hirsuta
Trametes lactinea
Trametes versicolor
Trametopsis cervina