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Fungi & Lichen Checklist

FUNGI & LICHEN CHECKLIST

 

CLASS HYMENOMYCETES

 Family Tremeliaceae

  • Witch’s Butter, Tremella cf. mesenterica (Lincoff, pl. 566; Miller, fig. 379;  Pacioni, fig. 320.)

 Family Auriculariaceae

  • Wood’s Ear, Auricularia auricula (Lincoff, pl. 617; Weber & Smith,fig. 13; Pacioni, fig. 321.)

 

CLASS ASCOMYCETES

Family Xylariaceae

  • Deadman‘s Fingers, Xylaria cf. polymorpha (Lincoff, pl. 697; Pacioni, fig. 345)
  • Carbon Antlers, Xylaria cf. hypoxylon, (Lincoff, pl. 738; Pacioni, fig. 344)
  • Carbon Cushion, Hypoxylon sp. (Lincoff, pl. 669)

 

CLASS BASIDIOMYCETES

Family Agaricaceae

  • Lemon-yellow Lepiota or Yellow Cottony Agaric, Leucocoprinus luteus, (Lincoff, pl. 180; Weber & Smith, fig. 149)

Family Polyporaceae

  • Turkey Tail, Trametes versicolor (Lincoff, pl. 482;  Miller, fig. 331;Pacioni, fig. 300
  • Trametes hydnoides
  • Rigidoporus sp.
  • Nigroporus vinosus
  • Artist‘s Conk, cf. Ganoderma applanatum (Lincoff, pl. 518; Pacioni, fig. 303)

Family Coprinaceae

  • Orange-mat Coprinum, Coprinus radians (Lincoff, pl. 41; Pacioni, fig. 230)

Family Lepiotaceae

  • Green-spored Lepiota or Fairy Ring Mushroom, Chlorophyllum molybdites (Lincoff, pl. 169, 170;  Miller, fig. 18; Weber & Smith, fig. 142)

Family Tricholomataceae

  • Oyster Mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus (Lincoff,pl. 484, 497; Miller, fig. 93;  Pacioni, fig.113 - poor illustration)
  • Black-footed Marasmius, Marasmiellus nigripes (Lincoff, pl.1)
  • Common Split Gill, Schizophyllum commune (Lincoff, pl. 487; Miller, fig. 86;  Pacioni, fig. 292)
  • Lactocollybia angiospermarum

 

CLASS GASTROMYCETES

Family Phallaceae

  • Stinkhorn, Mutinus caninus (Miller, fig. 340;  Pacioni, fig. 357)

 

SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Acora, David.  Mushrooms Demystified.  Ten Speed Press, Berkeley.

Lincoff, Gary H.  1981  The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York.

Miller, Orson K., Jr.  1979.  Mushrooms of North America.  E. P. Dutton, New York.

Weber, Nancy Smith and Alexander H. Smith.  1985.  A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms.  Univ. of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.

Pacioni, Giovanni.  (U. S. Editor:  Gary Lincoff).  1981.  Simon & Schuster‘s Guide to Mushrooms.  Fireside Books, Simon & Schuster, New York.