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Genus MucorObserver
maricel-patinoDescription
On Ficus pumila fruit (climbing vine) inside an abandoned convent. The conidiophore is up to 1.5 mm tall. Sporangia is hyaline, turning yellow and finally maturing to a black spore mass that falls apart as it is touched.
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Birch Woodwart (Jackrogersella multiformis)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Resupinate form made of packed perithecia. On rotten hardwood; inside a wine cellar in an abandoned convent. In KOH it turned brownish/sepia when crushed.
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Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Crust of gauzy aspect, growing on a rotten crumbly hardwood log; inside a wine cellar (dark and wet) in an abandoned convent. Crust is very thin and has cordons. At maturity it acquires a creamy tone. It peels off the wood as a veil or a very fine piece of textile. It is sharing the same log with Jackrogersella multiformis. Clamps are present on thin hyphae and lots of pointy/acicular crystals. Basidia very stout. Spores super tiny. The presence of the acicular crystals and small size of spores differentiates this species from T. farinacea and T. stellulata. My spores are smaller because it was hard to measure them so the ornamentation was not considered.
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Sac Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Parasite growing on Helvella 'varia'; inside a room in an abandoned convent.
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Podosphaera fugaxObserver
maricel-patinoDescription
On Geranium rotundifolium leaves and stem. Garden.
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Genus HomophronObserver
maricel-patinoDescription
Three units. Brittle. Under hardwoods in shady forest. Examined specimen: cap 1.5 cm; stipe 3.6 cm and continuing on a 1.8 cm mycelium that packed soil around it. Although the soil was a bit moist, it hasn't rain for few weeks now. Caps were light in color. Gills decurrent forming some furrows on upper stipe.
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Dacrymyces capitatusObserver
maricel-patinoDescription
On hardwood in shady forest.
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Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Crust on Laurus nobilis, several decimeters in extent. Shady woods. The textured appearance is given by the presence of an ascomycete Nectria-like scattered and immersed. Gloeocystidia present and variously shaped. Spores are finely ornamented and had a strong reaction to Melzers.
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Willow Shield (Pluteus salicinus)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Small cap with blue fibers. There was another bigger specimen on the same log. Shady forest.
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Willow Shield (Pluteus salicinus)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
On hardwood. Shady forest. Cap has blue fibers so does the stipe but they are scattered and few more together at its base. Cap 5.8 x 4.8 cm; stipe 6 cm.
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Blue Hound's-Tongue (Cynoglossum creticum)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Single; among other weeds and grass; edge of Old Mondego river.
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Reversed Clover (Trifolium resupinatum)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Repent form; edge of Old Mondego river. Single. Flowers are smaller than the most common white kind seen everywhere.
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Labiate Powdery Mildew (Neoerysiphe galeopsidis)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
On Lamium purpureum. Side of rural road at Old Mondego River edge.
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Red Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
I needed to ID the plant to be able to ID the Erysiphe that was attacking it (Neoerysiphe galeopsidis).
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Common Andryala (Andryala integrifolia)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Side of rural road; in an Eucalyptus globulus plantation area.
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Jersey Fern (Anogramma leptophylla)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
On bank; in an Eucalyptus globulus small plantation; side of rural road. Several units were seen. Small size. This area gets the afternoon sun.
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Tufted Bracket (Fuscoporia torulosa)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
At the base of a huge Eucalyptus globulus. Abundant.
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Borage (Borago officinalis)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Three plants in a small area; side of rural road; Eucalyptus globulus plantation. The flowers were crowded by some black insects sucking its nectar. The insects looked like the seeds themselves.
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White Fibrecap (Inocybe geophylla)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Cap fibrose 2.2 cm; fibrose silky stipe 7 cm x 7mm at base. Under hardwoods. Shady woods. Solitary. Cystidia are present on edge of gill, side of gill and with two types on the stipe: with crystals and shape similar to the other two mentioned before and changing to a smooth clavate shape and without crystals, downwards on the stipe; all with clamps at base. Unable to have a good sight of the basidia which are 4-spored and are ~19.7-22.2 x 4.9-7.4 um. Earthy smell.
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Coprinellus Sect. Domestici (Section Domestici)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Found on a barkless hardwood stick, in a riparian area. It has a bulb at its base. The stick was brought home and another unit fruited. From a 6mm primordia (2nd day), it expanded fully in the night to a 1.65 cm tall cap and 2.8 cm stipe (3rd day). In the morning of the 4rd day it collapsed.
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Common Leaf Spot, Brown Spot on Clover (Pseudopeziza trifolii)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
On Trifolium repens. The leaf was kept wet for some time and the pale spots revealed themselves as structures bursting through the leaf dermis, creating few 'rays'. Asci 8-spored; paraphyses present. Spores are asymmetrical; one side is pointy. The ascomycete has a gelatinous appearance and consistency. The black spots are from Polythrincium trifolii. Side of rural road.
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Laurobasidium lauriObserver
maricel-patinoDescription
High up on a stem of Laurus nobilis. Stem is about 10 cm in diameter. Another stem from the same base is also attacked, with three fruitings growing at the same time. Mossy woods.
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Laurobasidium lauriObserver
maricel-patinoDescription
On Laurus nobilis. Mossy woods. I was lucky again to be able to find it at the right time when it is producing its basidia and tons of spores. The whitish aspect is given by the basidia and spores crowing the galls.
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Cabbage Parachute (Gymnopus brassicolens)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Three units. One is on a vine hollow small branch; some creamy mycelium strands are surrounding the stick's base. The other two were in the ground. Wisteria sp, Sambucus nigra and Ficus carica are present. The smell of cabbage is overwhelming! Inside the garden of an abandoned convent. Soil is pretty rich. I forgot the mushroom in the site and came back two days later to retrieve a white spore print!
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Laurobasidium lauriObserver
maricel-patinoDescription
High up ~4 mt from the ground. On Laurus nobilis. Inside a roofless room in an abandoned convent. The lower fruiting has already been posted.
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Genus EryniaObserver
maricel-patinoDescription
Fly was on a window panel. The fungus consists of white hyphae running in all directions with terminal capitate heads. Before sample was placed in the micro, there are tiny dark concentrations of spores, masses scattered around. Micro shows that these heads keep growing. There are two types of spores present which I have no idea about why.
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Genus AsterostromaObserver
maricel-patinoDescription
Delicate crust on an old piece of construction, inside a wine cellar of an abandoned convent. Length of rays and the presence of cordons match A. medium. Only one tuberculate spore was seen.
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Globetails (Genus Sphaerophoria)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Side of railroad. On Coleostephus myconis.
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Naked-man Orchid (Orchis italica)Observer
maricel-patinoDescription
Single; side of rural road. Mondego River valley.