Van Cortlandt Park - Mar 29, 2025

A walk along the Old Croton Aqueduct trail during a very warm spring day and a pullulation of Prenolepis imparis, American winter ant, ID’d by Wilton Rao. A pullulation means a teeming or swarming, as in the teeming or swarming of the thousands of mating flying ants. It was somewhat distracting. Temperatures eventually getting to 80F. ~22 people for a 2.5hr. walk.

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Annulohypoxylon truncatum
Apiosporina morbosa
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
Biscogniauxia mediterranea
**Botrytis tulipae
on Tulipa gesneriana... found by Andrew Cannon on Sedgwick Avenue
Camillea punctulata
Creosphaeria sassafras
on Sassafras albidum
Daldinia childiae
Endothia gyrosa
Eutypa spinosa
Eutypella leprosa
Hypoxylon rubiginosum
Kretzschmaria deusta
Peroneutypa scoparia
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
Psiloglonium pusillum
Rhytisma acerinum
Whalleya microplaca
Xylaria liquidambaris
 

Crusts & Parchment

Erythricium aurantiacum
on Physcia millegrana
Hydnoporia olivacea
Hymenochaete rubiginosa
Peniophora albobadia
Peniophora cinerea
Phlebia incarnata
on Stereum ostrea complex
Radulomyces copelandii
Stereum complicatum
Stereum lobatum
Xylobolus frustulatus
 

Cyphelloid Fungi

Merismodes fasciculata
 

Gasteromycetes

Calvatia gigantea
senescent
 

Gilled Fungi

Flammulina velutipes
Resupinatus sp.
Schizophyllum commune
 

Jelly Fungi

Auricularia sp.
Exidia crenata
 

Lichens

Candelaria concolor
Candelariella efflorescens
Chrysothrix caesia
Flavoparmelia caperata
*Lecanora strobilina
Lecidea varians
Lepraria sp.
cf. finkii
Myelochroa aurulenta
Parmelia sulcata
Phaeophyscia pusilloides
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Physcia millegrana
Physcia stellaris
*Physciella chloantha
Porpidia albocaerulescens
Punctelia rudecta
Pyxine subcinerea
 

Myxomycetes

*Badhamia sp.
Claustria didermoides
 

Poroid Fungi

Fomitopsis quercina
Fulvifomes robiniae
Fuscoporia gilva
Ganoderma sessile
Grifola frondosa
senescent
Irpex lacteus
Ischnoderma resinosum
senescent
Trametes betulina
Trametes conchifer
Trametes hirsuta
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
 

Rusts

*Gymnosporangium clavipes
on Juniperus virginiana
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae
on Juniperus virginiana
Puccinia liliacearum
on Ornithogalum sp.
Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae
on Claytonia virginica
 

Smuts

Vankya heufleri
on Erythronium americanum