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Podoscypha aculeata

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by Michael Kuo

Here is an apparently rare fungus known from southern Missouri, southern Indiana, South Carolina, and Brazil. It has turned up fairly regularly at the Missouri Mycological Society's annual Mingo Foray, and was often assumed to be a species of Cotylidia--until Missouri material was sent to mycologist Arthur Welden, who was able to provide an identification.

Thanks to Robert and Matthew Johnson for collecting, documenting, and preserving Podoscypha aculeata for study; their collection is deposited in The Herbarium of Michael Kuo.

Description:

Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or scattered on the ground under hardwoods; fall; southern Missouri and southern Indiana (also reported from South Carolina and Brazil).

Fruiting Body: Up to 10 cm across and 13 cm high; composed of tightly packed branches which arise from a common base, forming a rosette; branches wide and flattened, whitish to creamy, becoming grayish to pinkish or faintly brownish in old age; upper surfaces rugged; margins fringed; undersurface rugged, yellowish to cream; flesh thin, tough and leathery.

Spore Print: Undocumented; probably white.

Microscopic Features: Spores 4.5-7 x 4-5 µ; smooth; ellipsoid to ovate; inamyloid. Gloeocystidia present. Hyphal structure dimitic. Clamp connections present.


REFERENCES: (Berkeley & M. A. Curtis, 1873) Boidin, 1959. (Reid, 1965; Drechsler-Santos et al., 2007.) Herb. Kuo 09251002, 09151101.


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Podoscypha aculeata

Podoscypha aculeata



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