Inwood Hill Park - Apr 20, 2025

We had a nice spring walk in Inwood Hill Park yesterday. Thanks to Maren Fossi for leading. The spring Pezizaceae came out (most of the collections are still immature and need a few days to a week in a moist chamber). There were some other highly-sought-after ascomycetes. Andrew Cannon found an impressive number of rusts, plus the usual smut—Vankya heufleri on trout lily. You know it when you see it.

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Anteaglonium globosum
Biscogniauxia marginata
Camillea punctulata
Camillea tinctor
Creosphaeria sassafras
Daldinia childiae
Eutypa spinosa
Eutypella sp.
cf. leprosa
Graphostroma platystomum
Hypomontagnella submonticulosa
Hypoxylon howeanum
Hypoxylon perforatum
Hysterobrevium mori
Immotthia atrograna
parasitizing Hypoxylon
Lachnum sp.
Mollisiaceae sp.
Morchella angusticeps
Morchella punctipes
Nemania sp.
Peziza varia
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
on Trichaptum biforme
Phylloscypha phyllogena
Rosellinia sp.
Sclerococcum stygium
Whalleya microplaca
Xylaria sp.
anamorph, small, immature, but near where we have seen X. longiana
Zythia resinae
 

Crusts & Parchment

Athelia sp.
Botryobasidium sp.
Hydnoporia olivacea
Hymenochaete rubiginosa
false tree bacon
Peniophora albobadia
Peniophora cinerea
Phlebiopsis crassa
Steccherinum bourdotii
Stereum complicatum
Stereum fasciatum
Tulasnella violea
Xylobolus frustulatus
Xylobolus subpileatus
 

Gilled Fungi

*Agaricales sp.
Coprinellus sp.
Sect.-Micacei
Galerina sp.
Hypholoma fasciculare
Mycena sp.
Resupinatus trichotis-IN01
Schizophyllum commune
 

Jelly Fungi

Auricularia angiospermarum
Exidia crenata
 

Lichens

Candelaria concolor
Parmotrema hypotropum
Physcia stellaris
 

Myxomycetes

Lamproderma nigrescens
Metatrichia vesparia
Paradiacheopsis cribrata
Physarum sp.
 

Oomycetes & Allies

**Peronospora dicentrae
on Dicentra cucullaria
 

Poroid Fungi

Cerioporus squamosus
Dentocorticium portoricense
Fomitopsis quercina
Fulvifomes robiniae
Ganoderma applanatum
Ganoderma sessile
Ganoderma tsugae
Irpex lacteus
Ischnoderma resinosum
Neofavolus sp.
Trametes conchifer
Trametes gibbosa
Trametes hirsuta
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
 

Rusts

*Allodus podophylli
on Podophyllum peltatum
*Gymnosporangium clavipes
on Juniperus virginiana
Phragmidium rosae-multiflorae
on Rosa multiflora
Puccinia liliacearum
on Ornithogalum sp.
Puccinia sparganioidis
on Sporobolus alterniflorus
Puccinia violae
on Viola sorori
 

Smuts

*Vankya heufleri
on Erythronium americanum