Cunningham Park - Mar 1, 2025

Wilton Rao led a walk that started warm and sunny and ended colder and windy. Temperatures got up to the low/mid 60s, but later dropped to the mid 40s by the end of the walk only to dip below freezing before the end of the day. Some interesting fungi and slime molds turned up, as well as our good friend Aaron Noraravian. Angelina rufescens continues to inhabit a single branch near the end of our walk. Wilton found a new-to-city lichen: Trapelia placodioides. Elan found a new-to-city slime mold: Diderma floriforme.

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Angelina rufescens
Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Annulohypoxylon truncatum
Apiosporina morbosa
Bertia moriformis
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
Camillea punctulata
Camillea tinctor
Chlorosplenium chlora
Endothia gyrosa
Eutypa spinosa
Eutypa limiformis
Eutypella sp.
Eutypella cf. leprosa
Graphostroma platystomum
Hypoxylon fuscopurpureum
Hypoxylon howeanum
Hypoxylon rubiginosum
Hypoxylon perforatum
Lachnum sp.
Nemania sp.
Orbilia sp.
looks like Orbilia crenatomarginata, but needs confirmation
Patellaria sp.
Peroneutypa scoparia
Rhytisma acerinum
Rosellinia corticium
Rosellinia subiculata
*Tubakia suttoniana
Whalleya microplaca
Xylaria liquidambaris
 

Crusts & Parchment

Aegerita candida
Athelia sp.
Botryobasidium simile
Erythricium aurantiacum
on Physcia sp.
Hydnoporia olivacea
Hydnoporia tabacina
Merulius tremellosus
Peniophora cinerea
Peniophora incarnata
Peniophora albobadia
Plicatura crispa
Steccherinum bourdotii
Steccherinum ochraceum
Stereum complicatum
Stereum fasciatum
Stereum lobatum
Tulasnella violea
Xylobolus frustulatus
 

Cyphelloid Fungi

Merismodes sp.
not looking much like M. fasciculata, but it has narrow spores
 

Gilled Fungi

Flammulina velutipes
Galerina marginata
Mycena overholtsii
Panellus stipticus
Resupinatus sp.
Resupinatus trichotis-IN01
Schizophyllum commune
 

Jelly Fungi

Calocera cornea
Dacrymyces sp.
Exidia crenata
Exidia nigricans
Naematelia aurantia
Tremella mesenterica
 

Lichens

Candelaria concolor
*Candelariella efflorescens
Chrysothrix caesia
Flavoparmelia caperata
Lecanora sp.
probably strobilina
Lepraria sp.
*Parmelia sulcata
*Parmotrema hypotropum
Phaeophyscia sp.
cf. orbicularis
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Physcia millegrana
Physcia stellaris
*Physciella melanchra
Porpidia albocaerulescens
Punctelia rudecta
*Trapelia placodioides
 

Myxomycetes

**Diderma floriforme
Lycogala epidendrum-complex
Metatrichia vesparia
Oligonema sp.
Perichaena depressa
Trichia sp.
 

Poroid Fungi

Daedaleopsis confragosa
Dentocorticium portoricense
Fuscoporia gilva
Ganoderma curtisii
Ganoderma lobatum
Gloeoporus dichrous
Irpex lacteus
Ischnoderma resinosum
Physisporinus sanguinolentus
Trametes gibbosa
Trametes lactinea
Trametes versicolor
Trametopsis cervina
Trichaptum biforme
Tyromyces chioneus