New zombie ant fungi just dropped 🧪
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October 19, 2023 at 11:14 PM
New zombie ant fungi just dropped 🧪
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they wrote this paper the year after Jurassic Park came out. They know what they did >:I www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
they wrote this paper the year after Jurassic Park came out. They know what they did >:I www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#NewSpecies!
A newly discovered truffle from #china for #FungiFriday:
Tuber purpureum
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC8797-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/phy...
#Phytotaxa #TuberPurpureum
#FAIRdata
#biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #truffles #tuber
A newly discovered truffle from #china for #FungiFriday:
Tuber purpureum
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC8797-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/phy...
#Phytotaxa #TuberPurpureum
#FAIRdata
#biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #truffles #tuber
February 6, 2026 at 9:40 AM
#NewSpecies!
A newly discovered truffle from #china for #FungiFriday:
Tuber purpureum
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC8797-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/phy...
#Phytotaxa #TuberPurpureum
#FAIRdata
#biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #truffles #tuber
A newly discovered truffle from #china for #FungiFriday:
Tuber purpureum
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC8797-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/phy...
#Phytotaxa #TuberPurpureum
#FAIRdata
#biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #truffles #tuber
B. scapaniae is closely related to B. gymnomitrii on Gymnomitrium species. Both fungi grow on the lower parts of host shoots. The larger ascomata of the latter make it slightly easier to spot. Both fungi are very rarely recorded.
September 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
B. scapaniae is closely related to B. gymnomitrii on Gymnomitrium species. Both fungi grow on the lower parts of host shoots. The larger ascomata of the latter make it slightly easier to spot. Both fungi are very rarely recorded.
And look at these ascomata of Xylaria longipes, or Dead Moll's Fingers! When cut open, you can see the white and sterile stroma on the inside and the blackish perithecia, closed fruitbodies producing ascospores, on the outer margin. Just beautiful! In Zoutelande, #TheNetherlands 🍄🇳🇱
August 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
And look at these ascomata of Xylaria longipes, or Dead Moll's Fingers! When cut open, you can see the white and sterile stroma on the inside and the blackish perithecia, closed fruitbodies producing ascospores, on the outer margin. Just beautiful! In Zoutelande, #TheNetherlands 🍄🇳🇱
Toenail fungus of the week: Aspergillus unguis with its forest green conidial mass and smooth, pale brown stalks — not producing any hülle cells or ascomata as you’d see in A. nidulans, which has similar stalks.
July 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Toenail fungus of the week: Aspergillus unguis with its forest green conidial mass and smooth, pale brown stalks — not producing any hülle cells or ascomata as you’d see in A. nidulans, which has similar stalks.
Two fungi (likely not lichenized) on pine resin. No ascomata as far as I can tell - only conidiomata. Sarea resina, Sarea difformis? I have never seen these species before.
September 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Two fungi (likely not lichenized) on pine resin. No ascomata as far as I can tell - only conidiomata. Sarea resina, Sarea difformis? I have never seen these species before.
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In the mean time, I'll just link to the fungus I'm referring to. My liverwort has little black hairy balls all over it.
In the mean time, I'll just link to the fungus I'm referring to. My liverwort has little black hairy balls all over it.
Epibryon plagiochilae
Hosts: Plagiochila asplenioides, P. porelloides, P. britannica Some better images, especially of the ascospore structure, taken by Paul Cannon here Ascomata on Plagiochila porelloides. Image from A…
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April 7, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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In the mean time, I'll just link to the fungus I'm referring to. My liverwort has little black hairy balls all over it.
In the mean time, I'll just link to the fungus I'm referring to. My liverwort has little black hairy balls all over it.
某所=Consortium of Lichen Herbaria
"Ascomata: apothecial, terminal or lateral,..."
トップページからの学名検索が便利。日本の種はあまりヒットしないけど属の解説が詳細で有難く、最近よく参照しています。
"Ascomata: apothecial, terminal or lateral,..."
トップページからの学名検索が便利。日本の種はあまりヒットしないけど属の解説が詳細で有難く、最近よく参照しています。
Consortium of Lichen Herbaria - Stereocaulon
lichenportal.org
May 25, 2026 at 1:10 AM
某所=Consortium of Lichen Herbaria
"Ascomata: apothecial, terminal or lateral,..."
トップページからの学名検索が便利。日本の種はあまりヒットしないけど属の解説が詳細で有難く、最近よく参照しています。
"Ascomata: apothecial, terminal or lateral,..."
トップページからの学名検索が便利。日本の種はあまりヒットしないけど属の解説が詳細で有難く、最近よく参照しています。
Great to find the fungus Bryobroma scapaniae on Scapania undulata in Bannau Brycheiniog in Wales a few days ago. I think this is the third ever record of the species, and I see how it is very easy to miss, with the dark fruitbodies disguised against the black host stem. From a rock in a stream.
September 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Great to find the fungus Bryobroma scapaniae on Scapania undulata in Bannau Brycheiniog in Wales a few days ago. I think this is the third ever record of the species, and I see how it is very easy to miss, with the dark fruitbodies disguised against the black host stem. From a rock in a stream.
Thanks to @daveslade42.bsky.social this species new to the UK in the last few years, was on my radar: Coccomyces delta. Found on fallen Laurus nobilis, Bay leaves. Ascomata/fruiting bodies often triangular. Recorded 30/05 Vale of Glamorgan VC 41. If you have Bay, have a look. @britmycolsoc.org.uk
June 2, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Thanks to @daveslade42.bsky.social this species new to the UK in the last few years, was on my radar: Coccomyces delta. Found on fallen Laurus nobilis, Bay leaves. Ascomata/fruiting bodies often triangular. Recorded 30/05 Vale of Glamorgan VC 41. If you have Bay, have a look. @britmycolsoc.org.uk
![Comic of Swamp Thing covered in so many different types of fungi he is no longer recognizable as he drifts through an ocean of fungal hyphae and ascomata. Several panels track his inner monologue as well as three images at the bottom as he considers where to exit the fungal realm including a pair of boots, the moldy corner of a bathroom floor and a molded partially eaten sandwich.
The text reads:
This...The Grey. I'm not growing through it, I'm...Crawling through it.
Drifting through it.
I can feel The Grey reaching out to me--It's been alone for so long. There's no parliament here. No prior avatars.
I can almost understand why Miki did what she did. It's lonely. No one to guide you, no memories, just this roiling, uniform, need.
I recognize this feeling. The green feels like this, now. After...After what I did to it. I didn't realize...
I'll have to do something about that. If I survive this.
I think I've gone far enough. Hard to be sure, but I think so. How to get out?
[Regarding the pair of boots.] Heh. Tempting. But no.
[Regarding the moldy bathroom floor.] I can do better than that.
[Regarding the moldy sandwich.] There. Bread mold. I like that. Pencillin, basically.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r5fto47twsladcfwozw7ibce/bafkreigb6jhcxd5qe5ssgplainbswmovyu7z5yajc3hghhkoncdnx64cty)
Newly identified species of truffles, native to North America. Found with the help of a truffle dog. My photo of a dog on the beach is my trained truffle dog. 😀 'canirevelatum'!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tuber cumberlandense and T. canirevelatum, two new edible Tuber species from eastern North America discovered by truffle-hunting dogs
Ectomycorrhizal fungi in the genus Tuber form hypogeous fruiting bodies called truffles. Many Tuber species are highly prized due to their edible and aromatic ascomata. Historically, there has been...
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January 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Newly identified species of truffles, native to North America. Found with the help of a truffle dog. My photo of a dog on the beach is my trained truffle dog. 😀 'canirevelatum'!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I just checked my collections. Only one specimen that is similar, but not the same. Unfortunately there were only a few ascomata and only one specimen.
April 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I just checked my collections. Only one specimen that is similar, but not the same. Unfortunately there were only a few ascomata and only one specimen.
Researchers describe three new species of Clonostachys and two new Sesquicillium combinations from China.
doi.org/10.3897/myco...
doi.org/10.3897/myco...
Morphology and multi-gene phylogeny reveal three new species of Clonostachys and two combinations of Sesquicillium (Bionectriaceae, Hypocreales) from Xizang, China
Clonostachys and Sesquicillium are genera in Bionectriaceae, and known in sexual perithecial ascomata and hyphomycetous asexual morphs. In their asexual morph, both genera share similar morphology in ...
doi.org
March 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Researchers describe three new species of Clonostachys and two new Sesquicillium combinations from China.
doi.org/10.3897/myco...
doi.org/10.3897/myco...
With that point I feel completely lost. Some of my ascomata are pointy, some rounded. I just don't have an internal reference for roundness of edges. Can you give advice for this?
May 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
With that point I feel completely lost. Some of my ascomata are pointy, some rounded. I just don't have an internal reference for roundness of edges. Can you give advice for this?
For the acute vs rounded - for myself I go with what the majority of the ascomata are, bearing in mind growing on very rough rock can produce distortions and age might be a factor. But I'm not sure what other people do.
May 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
For the acute vs rounded - for myself I go with what the majority of the ascomata are, bearing in mind growing on very rough rock can produce distortions and age might be a factor. But I'm not sure what other people do.
Two new truffle species described in North America. I especially like that taxonomic/ecological research was aided by truffle dogs. I need to train my dog to help me find truffles. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tuber cumberlandense and T. canirevelatum, two new edible Tuber species from eastern North America discovered by truffle-hunting dogs
Ectomycorrhizal fungi in the genus Tuber form hypogeous fruiting bodies called truffles. Many Tuber species are highly prized due to their edible and aromatic ascomata. Historically, there has been...
www.tandfonline.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Two new truffle species described in North America. I especially like that taxonomic/ecological research was aided by truffle dogs. I need to train my dog to help me find truffles. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I can totally appreciate that (and I would not do otherwise if I was recording for a given region).
When applying the LGBI key I also arrive at A. mougeotii with my sample (without much head scratching).
One thing I found in my notes was "LGBI3 -> ascomata with rounded edges A. paraxanthodes"
When applying the LGBI key I also arrive at A. mougeotii with my sample (without much head scratching).
One thing I found in my notes was "LGBI3 -> ascomata with rounded edges A. paraxanthodes"
May 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can totally appreciate that (and I would not do otherwise if I was recording for a given region).
When applying the LGBI key I also arrive at A. mougeotii with my sample (without much head scratching).
One thing I found in my notes was "LGBI3 -> ascomata with rounded edges A. paraxanthodes"
When applying the LGBI key I also arrive at A. mougeotii with my sample (without much head scratching).
One thing I found in my notes was "LGBI3 -> ascomata with rounded edges A. paraxanthodes"
Ecology and abundant occurrence of Genea (Pyronemataceae) in western Oregon, U.S.A. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.29.604843v1
Ecology and abundant occurrence of Genea (Pyronemataceae) in western Oregon, U.S.A. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.29.604843v1
Genea (Pyronemataceae, Ascomycota) develops hypogeous ascomata (truffles) that are often small and s
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August 2, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Ecology and abundant occurrence of Genea (Pyronemataceae) in western Oregon, U.S.A. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.29.604843v1
A fungus that specializes in growing on liverworts (nature is grand!) was observed in Oregon, USA, and the observer asks if it's the first record in North America. Fungus enthusiasts are interested in following up with spore analysis and DNA sequencing
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Bryoscyphus conocephali
Bryoscyphus conocephali from Siuslaw National Forest, Yachats, OR, US on March 8, 2025 at 04:29 PM by corndog. 100s of ascomata on several extensive carpets of Conocephalum over bank of creek.
1st ...
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April 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A fungus that specializes in growing on liverworts (nature is grand!) was observed in Oregon, USA, and the observer asks if it's the first record in North America. Fungus enthusiasts are interested in following up with spore analysis and DNA sequencing
5/x
5/x
There is a good bit about A paraxanthodes vs A mougeotii and A varia under the entry for A paraxanthodes in LGBI3. Which highlights the importance of measuring as many ascomata and spores as possible.
May 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
There is a good bit about A paraxanthodes vs A mougeotii and A varia under the entry for A paraxanthodes in LGBI3. Which highlights the importance of measuring as many ascomata and spores as possible.
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By: Christopher Taylor on Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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Sporormiaceae
Belongs within: Pleosporales. The Sporormiales are a group of microfungi with black ascomata and no stroma (Kirk et al. 2001). Characters (Kirk et al. 2001): Stromata absent. Ascomata perithecial, black, thick-walled, sometimes hairy, with well-developed lysigenous ostiole that is sometimes periphysate. Interascal tissue copious, of cellular pseudoparaphyses. Asci cylindrical, fissitunicate, sometimes with complex apical structures. Ascospores usually dark brown, strongly constricted… Continue reading Sporormiaceae
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By: Christopher Taylor on Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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