Keizer's Fungi Q & A.

[Fungus]

The Red Data List & rareity status of some of the species in your encyclopaedia, does that relate specifically to Holland or further afield ?

 

David,

Yes, it does relate specifically to The Netherlands - Holland only is the western part of my country of birth - because the translaters of the original version of my encyclopaedia were not familiar with the situation in your country, so they confined themselves to simply repeating the data from the Dutch first edition from 1996 in the English first edition of 1997. As you may have noticed, they also sometimes left out the number of species present in your country when a genus is introduced and replaced the number of species with an X. And on my CD-ROM, only the Dutch reviewed edition from 2010 has been updated for the Dutch Red List of 2007.

[David Humphries]

David,

Yes, it does relate specifically to The Netherlands - Holland only is the western part of my country of birth - because the translaters of the original version of my encyclopaedia were not familiar with the situation in your country, so they confined themselves to simply repeating the data from the Dutch first edition from 1996 in the English first edition of 1997. As you may have noticed, they also sometimes left out the number of species present in your country when a genus is introduced and replaced the number of species with an X. And on my CD-ROM, only the Dutch reviewed edition from 2010 has been updated for the Dutch Red List of 2007.

 

 

 

Thanks Gerrit, I had suspected but was keen to hear it confirmed.

 

Would be interesting to compare status of a specific species in both countries (something like Podocypher perhaps) & then look at the habitat situation & occurance in each country.

 

In terms of Myco conservation, I wonder if this type of work is currently happening & being collated at a continental level ?

 

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[sean freeman]

David as I know you are aware, myco conservation does have a very strong UK voice...

 

A babe is born! International Society of Fungal Conservation - Scottish Fungi

 

http://www.imafungus.org/Issue/2/09.pdf

[David Humphries]

David as I know you are aware, myco conservation does have a very strong UK voice...

 

A babe is born! International Society of Fungal Conservation - Scottish Fungi

 

http://www.imafungus.org/Issue/2/09.pdf

 

 

 

Great links sean, thank you.

 

Aware of the growing collabourations, but would be inspiring to hear if the conected field work is occuring now.

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

1. Would be interesting to compare status of a specific species in both countries & then look at the habitat situation & occurance in each country.

2. In terms of Myco conservation, I wonder if this type of work is currently happening & being collated at a continental level ?

 

David,

1. Yes it would, starting here and now with our cooperation on the effects of wood decay strategies of macrofungi on the condition and stability of trees.

2. It is happening at an European level (European Mycological Association) and has resulted in a project on drawing up an European Red List for Macrofungi : http://www.plantaeuropa.org/assets/EIP%20files/T2%20-%20EU%20red%20list%20for%20Macro%20fungi.pdf.

Edited May 2, 2011 by Fungus

[David Humphries]

Thanks for alerting me to the EMA Gerrit. I was not aware.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

some oddities that I have no ideas as to an identification, I suspected coniophora arida on the last image, and possibly a serpula for the whit crust?

 

is the little orange one a pluteus sp?

 

Thanks for any assistance:001_cool:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fungus]

some oddities that I have no ideas as to an identification, I suspected coniophora arida on the last image, and possibly a serpula for the whit crust?

is the little orange one a pluteus sp?

 

Tony,

Could you, if relevant, in future include as much information as possible, such as tree species of the substrate, pores, spore colour, etc. ?

1. Young Armillaria spp. and in the background black crusts of a Spaeriales, i.e. Ustulina deusta ?

2. Phlebia radiata.

3. Not a Serpula, but because the photo does not show whether the fungus has a smooth hymenium (f.i. Cerocorticium confluens) or a hymenium with pores (f.i. Physisporinus spp.) and whether it has a distinct smell (lysol), I can't give a name to it. Besides, for most of this type of Aphyllophorales a microscope is needed to identify the species.

4. With pink spores : Pluteus (cf. leoninus), with ochrous brown spores : Galerina spp.

5. On wood of oak : Mycena inclinata, on oak, but mostly on other wood : Mycena arcangeliana.

6. Correct : Coniophora cf. arida and the white one in the background : microscope.

Edited May 2, 2011 by Fungus

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

Could you, if relevant, in future include as much information as possible, such as tree species of the substrate, pores, spore colour, etc. ?

1. Young Armillaria spp. and in the background black crusts of a Spaeriales, i.e. Ustulina deusta ?

2. Phlebia radiata.

3. Not a Serpula, but because the photo does not show whether the fungus has a smooth hymenium (f.i. Cerocorticium confluens) or a hymenium with pores (f.i. Physisporinus spp.) and whether it has a distinct smell (lysol), I can't give a name to it. Besides, for most of this type of Aphyllophorales a microscope is needed to identify the species.

4. With pink spores : Pluteus (cf. leoninus), with ochrous brown spores : Galerina spp.

5. On wood of oak : Mycena inclinata, on other wood : Mycena arcangeliana.

6. Correct : Coniophora cf. arida and the white one in the background : microscope.

 

I should have included more info yes apologies.

 

1 cannot be an armillaria, it as can be seen in image contains a flesh that like xylarias is white and brittle like carrot, if my memory is correct it was on beech, and at first i thought they was some form of puff balls like lycoperdons, but the flesh as i said was identical in form and texture to a formed xylaria polymorpha, very white and very brittle

 

at least i got the coniophora, thanks to your book!

[Fungus]

1 cannot be an armillaria, it as can be seen in image contains a flesh that like xylarias is white and brittle like carrot, if my memory is correct it was on beech, and at first i thought they was some form of puff balls like lycoperdons, but the flesh as i said was identical in form and texture to a formed xylaria polymorpha, very white and very brittle

 

Tony,

Conclusion : your first hunch was correct : it is Lycoperdon pyriforme, so the score now is two out of six.