Seton Falls Park - Apr 18, 2026

A pleasant walk in Seton Falls Park, Bronx in a part of the year when there is a lull between the winter ascos, crusts and other odd things in the parks and the full mycorrhizal mushroom season. There were rusts and smuts and plant pathogens with their eccentric beauty—which Andrew Cannon and Zihao Wang have specialized in. Thanks to all who showed up, and thanks to Thursday for leading. ~15 people on a ~3 hr. walk

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Annulohypoxylon truncatum
Apiosporina morbosa
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
Biscogniauxia mediterranea
*Botrytis sp.
on Erythronium americanum
Camillea tinctor
Chlorosplenium chlora
*Dasyscyphella nivea
Diatrype decorticata
Diatrype virescens
old
Endothia gyrosa
Eutypella sp.
Graphostroma platystomum
Hypoxylon fragiforme
Hypoxylon rubiginosum
Kretzschmaria deusta
Lachnum sp.
Mollisiaceae sp.
Nectriaceae sp.
Nitschkia broomeana
Peroneutypa scoparia
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
Psiloglonium pusillum
Psiloglonium sp.
Trichoderma citrinoviride
Trichoderma sp.
Xylaria liquidambaris
 

Coral & Club Fungi

Mucronella sp.
possibly Mucronella flava-01
 

Crusts & Parchment

*Botryobasidium sp.
Hydnoporia olivacea
*Hymenochaete rubiginosa
Merulius tremellosus
old
Peniophora albobadia
Phlebiodontia subochracea
Stereum complicatum
Stereum fasciatum
Stereum lobatum
*Tulasnella violea
Xylobolus frustulatus
 

Gilled Fungi

Coprinellus sp.
Panellus stipticus
Psathyrellaceae sp.
Resupinatus sp.
Schizophyllum commune
 

Jelly Fungi

Auricularia sp.
Dacrymyces sp.
Exidia crenata
 

Lichens

**Amandinea punctata
Candelaria concolor
Flavoparmelia caperata
*Myelochroa aurulenta
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Porpidia albocaerulescens
*Punctelia rudecta
 

Myxomycetes

*Oligonema sp.
Reticularia lycoperdon
*Trichia sp.
 

Poroid Fungi

*Ceriporia purpurea
Cerrena unicolor
Daedaleopsis confragosa
Fulvifomes robiniae
Ganoderma curtisii
Ganoderma tsugae
Irpex lacteus
On sumac
Neofavolus sp.
Trametes conchifer
Trametes gibbosa
Trametes hirsuta
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
 

Rusts

Gymnoconia sp.
on Rubus sp. (spores not developed enough to germinate for ID)
Puccinia liliacearum
on Ornithogalum sp.
Puccinia sp.
on Carex blanda (trying to get this to sp.; I think it
*Puccinia taraxaci
Puccinia violae
on Viola sororia
Uromyces caladii
on Peltandra virginica
 

Smuts

*Vankya heufleri
on Erythronium americanum (I scoped dozens of leaves and even went to NYBG to the site where I found the cryptic smut last year...no luck)