steve clements1
Nectriopsis tubariicola? on a Twiglet - Tubaria hiemalis?
Graves Park on Tuesday Jan 7. The odd Morel-looking fungus looks like a parasitic fungus which has completely taken over the Tubaria. Tubaria hiemalis is named by Jordan and other authors, but dismissed by the BMS as the common Tubaria furfuracea. The really striking feature of T. hiemalis is the capitate cystidia on the gill edge - almost all of the cystidia on this one had a "head" or bulb on the cystidia, whereas T. furfuracea (Scurfy Twiglet) I find to have more pillar-shaped or multiform cystidia, and less definite capitate ones.
Nectriopsis tubariicola? on a Twiglet - Tubaria hiemalis?
Graves Park on Tuesday Jan 7. The odd Morel-looking fungus looks like a parasitic fungus which has completely taken over the Tubaria. Tubaria hiemalis is named by Jordan and other authors, but dismissed by the BMS as the common Tubaria furfuracea. The really striking feature of T. hiemalis is the capitate cystidia on the gill edge - almost all of the cystidia on this one had a "head" or bulb on the cystidia, whereas T. furfuracea (Scurfy Twiglet) I find to have more pillar-shaped or multiform cystidia, and less definite capitate ones.