Inwood Hill Park - Apr 26, 2026

A beautiful day with temperatures in the mid/high 50s after some significant rain the night before. The morning clouds were gone by afternoon and some interesting fungi greeted us. Everyone's favorite ascomycetes were out ~30 people on a ~4 hr. walk. Numerous new to city and park observations.

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Annulohypoxylon truncatum
Anteaglonium globosum
Apiosporina morbosa
Arachnopeziza deliculata
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
Biscogniauxia marginata
*Botrytis tulipae
Camillea punctulata
Camillea tinctor
Chlorociboria sp.
Chlorosplenium chlora
*Colletotrichum fioriniae
showing up on Hackberry petiole galls as usual.
Creosphaeria sassafras
Daldinia childiae
Dasyscyphella nivea
Endothia gyrosa
Eutypa spinosa
Eutypella leprosa
Hypoxylon howeanum
Hypoxylon rubiginosum
Hysterobrevium mori
Immotthia atrograna
Jackrogersella multiformis
Kretzschmaria deusta
Lachnellula resinaria
Lophodermium sp.
on Pinus strobus
Mollisiaceae sp.
*Morchella americana
Morchella angusticeps
Morchella diminutiva
Morchella punctipes
Nectriaceae sp.
Cosmospora s.l. on an old pyrenomycete
Nemania sp.
Peroneutypa scoparia
Podosphaera pannosa
on Rosa multiflora
Rosellinia corticium
Rosellinia subiculata
*Thyridium tiliae
Whalleya microplaca
Xylaria sp.
 

Crusts & Parchment

Athelia sp.
Botryobasidium sp.
Dendrothele nivosa
Erythricium aurantiacum
Hydnoporia olivacea
Peniophora albobadia
Peniophora cinerea
Peniophora incarnata
Phlebia coccineofulva
Steccherinum bourdotii
Stereum complicatum
Stereum fasciatum
Stereum lobatum
Xylobolus frustulatus
Xylobolus subpileatus
 

Cyphelloid Fungi

Merismodes fasciculata
 

Dimorphic Fungi

Bartheletia paradoxa
on Ginkgo biloba
 

Gasteromycetes

Apioperdon pyriforme
Calvatia gigantea
old
 

Gilled Fungi

Agrocybe sp.
Coprinellus sp.
cf. micaceus
Flammulina velutipes
Hypholoma fasciculare
*Lentinellus sp.
Mycena meliigena
Mycena sp.
Panellus stipticus
Pleurotus ostreatus
Pleurotus sp.
Resupinatus trichotis-IN01
Schizophyllum commune
 

Jelly Fungi

Auricularia sp.
*Dacrymyces sp.
Exidia crenata
Exidia nigricans
Myxarium nucleatum
Naematelia aurantia
Phaeotremella frondosa
Tremella mesenterica
 

Lichens

Candelaria concolor
Chrysothrix caesia
Flavoparmelia caperata
Lecanora sp.
Lepraria sp.
*Phaeophyscia pusilloides
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Phaeophyscia sp.
**Phaeophyscia squarrosa
Physcia millegrana
Physcia stellaris
Punctelia rudecta
*Xanthosyne varians
 

Myxomycetes

Perichaena depressa
 

Oomycetes & Allies

**Albugo candida-complex
on Lepidium didymum
**Hyaloperonospora parasitica
on Capsella bursa-pastoris
Peronospora dicentrae
 

Poroid Fungi

Cerioporus squamosus
old
Cerrena unicolor
Fulvifomes robiniae
Ganoderma lobatum
Ganoderma tsugae
Irpex lacteus
Ischnoderma resinosum
old
Neofavolus sp.
Trametes betulina
Trametes conchifer
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
 

Rusts

Allodus podophylli
on Podophyllum peltatum
Gymnosporangium clavipes
on Juniperus virginiana
*Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae
on Juniperus virginiana
Puccinia bardanae
on Arctium minus (kind of exciting, this is the spermogonial and aecial stage of a rust I
Puccinia liliacearum
on Ornithogalum
Puccinia violae
 

Smuts

Vankya heufleri
on Erythronium americanum