High Rock Park - Aug 2, 2025

A lovely walk in High Rock Park, Staten Island today. We sped by our usual territory and concentrated on the area around Ohrbach Lake. There were dry conditions and extreme heat in the preceding week, followed by a drenching rain two days before the walk.

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

*Angelina rufescens
old
Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
Camarops petersii
Camillea punctulata
Chlorosplenium chlora
Daldinia childiae
Diatrype decorticata
on beech
Endothia gyrosa
Gliocladium polyporicola
Hypomyces sp.
parasitizing bolete
Mollisiaceae sp.
Orbilia sp.
Rosellinia subiculata
Scutellinia sp.
Whalleya microplaca
Xylaria liquidambaris
Zythia resinae
teleomorph
 

Boletes

Aureoboletus sp.
Baorangia bicolor
Exsudoporus frostii
Lanmaoa pseudosensibilis
**Neoboletus chaemeleon
Retiboletus ornatipes
Strobilomyces sp.
Suillus sp.
Tylopilus balloui
Xerocomellus sp.
 

Chanterelles & Allies

Cantharellus cinnabarinus
 

Coral & Club Fungi

Artomyces pyxidatus
 

Crusts & Parchment

Hydnoporia olivacea
Hyphodontia sp.
Peniophora cinerea
Phlebiopsis crassa
Stereum complicatum
Stereum fasciatum
 

Fiber Fans & Vases

Thelephora sp.
 

Gasteromycetes

*Crucibulum parvulum
Scleroderma citrinum
 

Gilled Fungi

Amanita brunnescens
Amanita farinosa
Amanita flavoconia
*Amanita multisquamosa-04
Amanita onusta
*Collybiopsis dichroa
Conocybe apala
Crepidotus sp.
Entoloma strictius
Hygrocybe conica-complex
Hygrocybe sp.
tiny, scarlet, yellow gills
Inocybe spp.
Lactarius camphoratus-complex
*Lactifluus glaucescens
*Lactifluus piperatus
Lactifluus subvellereus
Lentinellus castoreus
*Leucoagaricus americanus
Megacollybia rodmanii
Panellus stipticus
**Parasola auricoma
Phyllotopsis nidulans
Pluteus sp.
Resupinatus sp.
Russula compacta
Russula parvovirescens
Russula spp.
*Russula subsect.-Foetentinae
Russula variata
Schizophyllum commune
 

Jelly Fungi

Auricularia sp.
Calocera cornea
Exidia crenata
Exidia nigricans
Myxarium nucleatum
Tremella mesenterica
 

Lichens

Flavoparmelia caperata
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
 

Myxomycetes

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
**Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa-var.descendens
*Diderma effusum
Lycogala sp.
*Oligonema favogineum
*Physarum album
Stemonitis sp.
 

Poroid Fungi

Cerioporus leptocephalus
Daedaleopsis confragosa
Fomitopsis spraguei
Gloeoporus dichrous
Hapalopilus rutilans
Irpex lacteus
Laetiporus sulphureus
Meripilus sumstinei
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
Tyromyces chioneus
 

Toothed Fungi

Hydnellum spongiosipes