Cotter River, ACT
Identification history
| Hymenoscyphus | 25 May 2016 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Hymenoscyphus | 23 May 2016 | Heino | ||
| Cudoniella pezizioidea | 20 May 2016 | KenT |
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User's notes
Growing on soft black/brown decaying leaves and bark below undecayed leaf litter layer some specimens with fruit body up to 12 mm across.
2 comments
Heino
wrote:
23 May 2016
My wariness in naming small, white, featureless ascomycetes from photos led me to look for information about Cudoniella pezizoidea. I know that it is the caption to a photo in Bruce Fuhrer's 'A field guide to Australian fungi', yet the name is missing from Mycobank, the standard database of fungal names - and that was worrying. The explanation is given by Genevieve Gates & David Ratkowsky (A field guide to Tasmanian fungi, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club, 2014). In their book they show two Hymenoscyphus photos and note that one of them would be what Bruce called Cudoniella pezizoidea, but note that he used that name without giving any reason for doing so, which makes the name Cudoniella pezizoidea invalid. Of course, Bruce's generally admirable book has sold widely and so the invalid name Cudoniella pezizoidea turns up on several websites. Now, getting back to the subject of KenT's photograph - Hymenoscyphus is a plausible guess for the genus and I empasize the word plausible.
KenT
wrote:
24 May 2016
Yes how it got placed into Cudoniella I don't know. The first use of the name I had was in McCann 2003 'Australian Fungi Illustrated' and given the preface I'd probably wrongly assumed he had help from the Herbarium of Victoria for his names. Assigning it to Hymenoscyphus is also what has been done in the recent publication by Hubregtse J (2016) Fungi In Australia, Rev. 1.01, E-published by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Inc., Blackburn, Victoria, Australia. Web address http://www.fncv.org.au/fungi-in-australia/. I've looked at what someone has possibly believed to the original description (as Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips, Grevillea 19 (91): 72 (1891)) which could almost apply to any small white ascomycete in this group.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.805972-35.387528
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 14 May 2016 09:25 AM Recorded on
- KenT Recorded by
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Collections
Fungi Disk-like to cup-like Cups or disks - with no 'eggs' KenT Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Hymenoscyphus Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
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