Manitou Point Preserve - Aug 9, 2025

Dry conditions, but an otherwise pleasant walk in Manitou Point Preserve. Two of the three Callistosporium spp. that are known to inhabit the park were present today. Although the dry conditions limited what we were able to find, Andrew Cannon identified a number of cool rusts, including one, Uropyxis amorphae, that is quite rare in the east and might be extending its range into New York.

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Berkleasmium conglobatum
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
*Biscogniauxia mediterranea
*Chlorociboria aeruginascens
*Chlorosplenium chlora
Daldinia childiae
*Daldinia petriniae-complex
or what we find on birch
Diatrype decorticata
Erysiphe sp.
on Quercus montana
Eutypella sp.
Graphostroma platystomum
*Hydropisphaera peziza
*Hypomyces xyloboli
Hypoxylon howeanum
*Hypoxylon rubiginosum
*Immotthia atrograna
*Nectriaceae sp.
Cosmospora sp. s.l. on Peroneutypa scoparia
*Peroneutypa scoparia
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
*Phyllachora graminis
on Calamagrostis sp.
*Rhytisma vaccinii
on Vaccinium sp.
Scutellinia sp.
looks to be what I call S. vitreola, what they call Scutellinia "sp-IN15"
*Whalleya microplaca
 

Crusts & Parchment

*Athelia sp.
Hydnoporia olivacea
Hydnoporia tabacina
*Peniophora cinerea
Radulomyces copelandii
*Steccherinum bourdotii
Stereum complicatum
Stereum fasciatum
Stereum lobatum
Xylobolus frustulatus
 

Cyphelloid Fungi

*Merismodes fasciculata
 

Gasteromycetes

Scleroderma citrinum
 

Gilled Fungi

Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum
*Callistosporium pseudofelleum
Crepidotus spp.
Entoloma strictius
*Panellus stipticus
*Panus lecomtei
*Pluteus petasatus
*Pluteus seticeps
*Resupinatus alboniger
Russula mariae
Russula sp.
Schizophyllum commune
Simocybe centunculus
?
Tapinella atrotomentosa
old
 

Jelly Fungi

*Calocera cornea
*Exidia crenata
 

Lichens

*Flavoparmelia caperata
*Lasallia papulosa
Common Toadskin Lichen - I think this is the rock tripe we saw on the island
 

Myxomycetes

Fuligo septica
Hemitrichia calyculata
Lycogala sp.
*Oligonema favogineum
Stemonitis sp.
 

Poroid Fungi

Cerioporus leptocephalus
Daedaleopsis confragosa
Fomitopsis spraguei
Gloeoporus dichrous
*Inonotus hispidus
Irpex lacteus
*Nigroporus vinosus
Physisporinus crocatus
we will eventually change this to Meripilus crocatus
Sidera lenis
*Steccherinum nitidum
*Trametes betulina
Trametes cinnabarina
*Trametes lactinea
Trametes versicolor
*Trichaptum abietinum
Trichaptum biforme
Tyromyces chioneus
 

Rusts

*Coleosporium montanum
on Symphyotrichum cordifolium
*Coleosporium solidaginis
on Solidago spp.
Gymnosporangium sp.
on Amelanchier laevis (spermogonia only, though with a gall in the leaf so likely something uncommon once the aecia form)
Kuehneola uredinis
on Rubus occidentalis
*Puccinia violae
on Viola sp.
*Uredinopsis americana
on Onoclea sensibilis
*Uropyxis amorphae
on Amorpha fruticosa - I