Wolfe's Pond Park - Apr 4, 2026

A walk in Wolfe's Pond Park, Staten Island. We were joined by crust expert Emma Richter. Aki found Arachnopeziza aurelia, a beautiful orange asco. Elan found a parasitic fungus on an Armadillidiidae (a wood louse) that looks to be Purpureocillium. Emma Richter was delighted to find Elmerina, a pore crust she had introduced us to in her lecture. There is a Cyphelloid, also found by Elan, which looks like it could be Crepidotus pallidus.

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Annulohypoxylon annulatum
*Arachnopeziza aurelia
found by Aki
Berkleasmium conglobatum
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
Camillea tinctor
Chlorosplenium chlora
Creosphaeria sassafras
Daldinia sp.
Diatrype virescens
Endothia gyrosa
Graphostroma platystomum
Hypomyces aurantius
*Hypomyces rosellus
Hypoxylon perforatum
Hypoxylon rubiginosum
*Hysteriaceae sp.
Immotthia atrograna
Kretzschmaria deusta
*Macrodiplodiopsis desmazieri
Mollisiaceae sp.
Nemania sp.
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
**Purpureocillium sp.
Rosellinia subiculata
Whalleya microplaca
Xylaria liquidambaris
 

Atractiellomycetes

Helicogloea compressa
 

Crusts & Parchment

Aegerita candida
Botryobasidium sp.
Byssocorticium sp.
blue-green cottony
Hydnophlebia chrysorhiza
Hydnoporia olivacea
Hydnoporia tabacina
Hyphodontia sp.
Peniophora cinerea
the host for Tremella mesenterica
Radulomyces copelandii
Rhizochaete sp.
Steccherinum ochraceum
Stereum complicatum
Stereum lobatum
Xenasmatella vaga
Xylobolus frustulatus
 

Cyphelloid Fungi

Crepidotus pallidus
found by Elan
*Merismodes sp.
 

Fiber Fans & Vases

*Thelephora sp.
 

Gasteromycetes

Apioperdon pyriforme
 

Gilled Fungi

Galerina marginata
Mycena sp.
*Ossicaulis lignatilis
Panellus stipticus
Pluteus cervinus-complex
Resupinatus trichotis-IN01
Schizophyllum commune
 

Jelly Fungi

Auricularia sp.
*Dacrymyces sp.
Exidia crenata
Tremella mesenterica
 

Lichens

*Candelaria concolor
Flavoparmelia caperata
*Lecanora sp.
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
 

Myxomycetes

*Comatricha nigra
found by Monika
Comatricha sp.
could be C. laxa or C. nigra
Hemitrichia sp.
Lycogala sp.
*Metatrichia sp.
Oligonema sp.
Perichaena depressa
 

Poroid Fungi

Daedaleopsis confragosa
**Elmerina caryae
Fomes graveolens
Fuscoporia gilva
Ganoderma lobatum
Gloeoporus dichrous
Nigroporus vinosus
Physisporinus crocatus
Trametes betulina
Trametes gibbosa
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
 

Rusts

Puccinia longicornis
*Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae
 

Smuts

*Vankya heufleri
on trout lily leaves