Van Cortlandt Park - May 24, 2025

An early season walk in Van Cortlandt Park that yielded some very interesting mushrooms including a Volvariella a group of Helvella, one of which was infected with Hypomyces cervinigenus. About 25 people for a ~4hr. walk.

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Apiosporina morbosa
*Botryosphaeria sp.
Chlorosplenium chlora
Endothia gyrosa
Graphostroma platystomum
Helvella sp.
Hydropisphaera peziza
Kretzschmaria deusta
Lachnum sp.
Mollisiaceae sp.
Orbilia sp.
Orbilia aff. fusiformis, an undescribed species
*Poronia sp.
Scutellinia sp.
*Sphaerostilbella berkeleyana
*Taphrina farlowii
on Prunus serotina
Trichoderma sp.
Whalleya microplaca
Xylaria liquidambaris
Xylaria cornu-damae
Xylaria polymorpha
 

Coral & Club Fungi

Artomyces pyxidatus
 

Crusts & Parchment

Athelia sp.
Byssomerulius corium
Dendrothele nivosa
Hydnoporia olivacea
Peniophora albobadia
Peniophora cinerea
Phlebiopsis crassa
Radulomyces copelandii
Stereum complicatum
Stereum fasciatum
Stereum lobatum
Tulasnella aurantiaca
 

Cyphelloid Fungi

Flagelloscypha minutissima
 

Gilled Fungi

Agrocybe sp.
Candolleomyces candolleanus
Coprinellus sect.-Micacei
Coprinellus disseminatus
Coprinellus sp.
Coprinopsis variegata
Crepidotus mollis
Crepidotus sp.
Gymnopus dryophilus
Gymnopus erythropus
Lacrymaria lacrymabunda
Lyophyllum sp.
Marasmius oreades
Megacollybia rodmanii
Mycena haematopus
*Mycena leptocephala
Mycena meliigena
Mycena sp.
Panellus stipticus
Panus conchatus
Pleurotus ostreatus
Pleurotus pulmonarius
Pluteus cervinus-complex
Resupinatus sp.
*Resupinatus trichotis-IN01
Schizophyllum commune
Stropharia rugosoannulata
Volvariella sp.
maybe Volvariella sp-NY01
 

Jelly Fungi

Auricularia angiospermarum
Auricularia sp.
Calocera cornea
Dacrymyces sp.
Exidia crenata
Exidia nigricans
Myxarium nucleatum
Naematelia aurantia
Tremella mesenterica
 

Lichens

Candelaria concolor
Candelariella efflorescens
Chrysothrix caesia
Cladonia ochrochlora
Cladonia sp.
squamules only
Flavoparmelia caperata
**Lecanora hybocarpa
Lecanora strobilina
Lecidea varians
Lepraria sp.
cf. finkii
Myelochroa aurulenta
Parmelia sulcata
*Parmotrema hypotropum
Phaeophyscia pusilloides
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Physcia millegrana
Physcia stellaris
Physciella chloantha
Punctelia caseana
Punctelia rudecta
 

Myxomycetes

Arcyria sp.
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
var. fructiculosa
**Didymium clavus
Didymium sp.
*Didymium squamulosum
Fuligo septica
var. candida
Lycogala epidendrum-complex
Tubifera sp.
 

Poroid Fungi

Cerioporus leptocephalus
Cerioporus squamosus
Ganoderma lobatum
Ganoderma sessile
Old
Gloeoporus dichrous
Irpex lacteus
Laetiporus cincinnatus
Lentinus arcularius
Neofavolus sp.
*Physisporinus sanguinolentus
Polyporus fagicola
Trametes betulina
Old
Trametes conchifer
Trametes gibbosa
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
Tyromyces fumidiceps
 

Rusts

Pileolaria brevipes
on Toxicodendron radicans (never seen the spermogonia/stage 0 before)
**Puccinia convolvuli
on Calystegia sepium
Puccinia polygoni-amphibii
on Geranium maculatum
Puccinia recondita
on Impatiens capensis
Puccinia sparganioidis
on Fraxinus sp. (aecial stage of the black rust we saw on marshgrass in Inwood)
Puccinia violae
on Viola sp.