Enerthenema cf melanospermum
This species is not known from Canada. Found with Tyson Ehlers and Pam Janszen during Whistler bioblitz.
June 8, 2024
Callaghan Lake (Whistler), BC
Nivicolous (snow patches in area). Growing underneath elevated decayed hemlock(?) log. Large, dense fruiting.
Sporocarp 1.2mm tall. Sporotheca subglobose, 0.8 x1.0mm.
Apical disc large, up to 0.5mm, funnel shaped.
Spores dark, minutely warted, 10.4-13.0um.
Capillitium dark, slender, frequently branching, abundant swellings and some short protrusions.
@tyson_ehlers Here’s the one that was everywhere.
@tyson_ehlers Stemonitis splendens/lignicola? I compared this to some of your observations and it didn’t line up well with any of the others.
Last photo is a size comparison to the spore of Arcyria denudata (I think)
@tyson_ehlers Super confused on this one, not sure how to un-confuse myself. I only have 2 sporocarps that aren’t substantial old.
Maybe old oyster mushrooms? Growing on rotting paper birch.
Maybe old oyster mushrooms? Growing on rotting paper birch.
Very slimy and wet looking so I do not think it is the white carnival slime mould. See lower right to zoom in
Maybe
@ryan_durand or @corndog -- this stuff was being fed on by chrome beetles and seemed to ride the line between slime mold and fungus, but for the oil-slick lustre and strange net-like margins