Mysteryombronia later in dev and still immersed on fine mineral bank
Incubated elk (or deer) dung
spores on the smaller side... 7-9 x 6-7.5? Going to re-measure
setae 200-350 ish
Logging road pull off with fine, disturbed and seasonally saturated soil
Growing on the decaying leaves of Gaultheria shallon.
A species in waiting - Bill Haber has identified this as an undescribed species (P. "Manzanillo") closely related to P. distadens and P. baltodanoi. Gentle catch and release.
In dry needle litter beneath Arctostaphylos, about 10m above sea level, warm moderately sunny slope out of the wind. Two individuals observed. Looks close to E. coloradella (but nearest genus records are over 600 km away)
on silty trail soil bank along with FOssombronia foveolata and bryum argenteum
On syntrichia spotted by @bradenjudson
spotted and IDed by @corndog - nitrophilous on dog-soaked Sanionia uncinatus. Phonetic name sounded like Pseudombrophila but cannot find the genus
Muscicolous on tree branches
On bark of Pseudotsuga menziesii. I thought this was a Chaenothecopsis or other calicioid at first glance, now I'm thinking Dermea or close, but the habit is strange.
Apothecia <1mm. Only few mature spores, 4 celled, 16-17 × 6.5-7.5. Conidia are sickle shaped, roughly 17-20 x 1-1.5. I'm not sure I recognized any of the fruiting bodies as beaked pycnidia, but didn't get a look at any asexual structures otherwise. IKI-, I think.
Entire hymenium is yellow-green in H2O. black, carbonaceous tissue in the ascomata violently dissolves red in KOH, leaving the hymenium and excipulum hyaline and easily visible after the pigment is washed away, pretty neat.
It keys roughly to D. pinicola... There is a Dermea pseudotsugae but I don't think that matches well either
On old-growth D. fir. bark
same locality as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112346067
Tentative ID - spotted by @mattunitis
@dbltucker bryo emergency. ono drying muds of receding subalpine lake
Cheam Lake Wetlands Regional Park, Fraser Valley, BC, Canada
Odd. Sheltered crevive under rotting log
Collected. Spotted by @bradenjudson can't remember habitat/
At the time that @bradenjudson spotted this stuff, we thought it was Kurzia. Wondering now if hints of Lep sand? over peaty, bryophyte rich soil
In mixed hepatic mat of herbertus pleurozia, and lepidozia filamentosa under cedar shrubs in bog. No gemmae but confirmed under microscope. Broadly recurved ventral margin, and convex leaves, no underleaves. @johndreyolds @bradenjudson @rambryum
v stoked about this one
Mature 2nd-growth
coniferous forest; THE NAUTILUS 124(1):25–33, 2010
(naturally
regenerated with
patches of old
growth)
Morning dew, roosting on a grass stem. Kunsoot Creek, Denney Island. Near Bella Bella, Central Coast, BC, Canada
Swept from Grindelia stricta.
I think this might be C. jamesi, like my previous observation (linked below). My photography setup is better now, and I have more experience, so I'll try to re-ID under a scope.
Steep face of creekside rock with bryos below soil-creek rock margin. Some stem leaves pigmented, sometimes inconsistent and splotchy as in the tenth photo?
Trailing down small cliff face in bog. Trigonous.
on salmonberry in hyperoceanic drippy splash zone of water fall.
Collected for the Royal BC Museum
Photos #1-4 taken by @dccopley for identification and uploaded at their request / with their permission
Photos #5-10 on are my own in the field. Individual was alive at time of photos being taken.
Sporocarps - Sessile, ≈0.7-1mm, growing on bark.
Peridium - Bright orange, brittle, calcareous, seems thick.
Capillitium - White, overall quite irregular. Nodes: yellow, elongated, made of granules.
Spores - Dark brown in mass, brown in transmitted light, minutely warted. I'd guess within the range of 7-10um.
@tyson_ehlers @ryan_durand @pamjanszen Feeling pretty good about my ID. P. lateritium doesn't seem to match as well given sporocarp size, peridium, and nodes. P. rubiginosum also just seems more likely.
maybe? Or some other Alpinobombus? @sydcannings @manysarahs @beesofcanada
Observation collected with permission from BC Parks
on conglomerate bolder
likely calc-enriched
On Quercus garryana abaxial leaf surface
Trail behind Mandum Homestay, Wilson's Bird of Paradise hike. Waigeo. Raja Ampat, Indonesia.
In Bazzania trilobata in bog.
Gymnocolea inflata? Denney Island, Central Coast, BC, Canada
On deadened bryos (neckera?)
Tucked under the operculum.
I think. In drainage along bare gravel
my first male! under rock. habitat photos included
Not sure about IDing these, so I took a couple specimens in 95% EtOH