Clove Lakes Park - May 17, 2026

Less than ideal conditions, with dry weather in a slow season. The find of the day was made by Monika, who, while log flipping, found Ceriporia spissa—a bright orange pore crust which stains blood red where damaged. ~12 people on a ~4hr. walk

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Apiosporina morbosa
Arachnopeziza sp.
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
Camillea punctulata
Chlorociboria sp.
No fruiting bodies
Chlorosplenium chlora
Diatrype decorticata
Eutypa sp.
Graphostroma platystomum
*Hyaloscyphaceae sp.
Hypoxylon rubiginosum
*Hysteriaceae sp.
*Lachnellula ellisiana
Lachnum sp.
Lophodermium sp.
2-needle pine?
*Nitschkia broomeana
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
Rosellinia subiculata
Trichoderma sp.
Whalleya microplaca
Xylaria liquidambaris
Zythia resinae
 

Crusts & Parchment

Botryobasidium sp.
Hydnophlebia chrysorhiza
Hydnoporia olivacea
Hydnoporia tabacina
Peniophora albobadia
Peniophora cinerea
*Rhizochaete sp.
Steccherinum ochraceum
Stereum complicatum
Stereum fasciatum
Xylobolus frustulatus
 

Gilled Fungi

**Kuehneromyces marginellus
Lacrymaria lacrymabunda
Panellus stipticus
Pluteus cervinus-complex
 

Jelly Fungi

Auricularia sp.
Exidia crenata
 

Lichens

Candelaria concolor
*Cladonia sp.
*Lepraria sp.
*Phaeophyscia pusilloides
*Physcia millegrana
*Physcia stellaris
 

Myxomycetes

Metatrichia vesparia
 

Poroid Fungi

*Ceriporia spissa
Fuscoporia gilva
Ganoderma applanatum
Ganoderma lobatum
Gloeoporus dichrous
Irpex lacteus
*Physisporinus crocatus
old
Trametes pubescens
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
 

Rusts

*Gymnoconia nitens
on Rubus flagellaris (ID is based on which spore stage produces basidia, normally rusts produce basidia from the teliospores, however G. nitens has modified it
*Gymnoconia sp.
*Puccinia taraxaci
Taraxacum sp.
*Puccinia violae
on Viola sp.
 

Smuts

*Vankya heufleri
on Erythronium americanum