(19.06.2013)

Fungal guild of Leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata) is a champion by a number of species compared to earlier my searches in this season. It is not surprisingly since there are many of substrates in a shrub, as the leaves, the twigs, the flowers. And these different parts of a plant are inhabited by different fungal lists. Now i have collected by two species from branches and fallen flowers, and 6 species from fallen leaves.

Fresh fallen flowers should be easy source of nutrients, and actually, found in wet places they host several anamorphic species. I have described not all of them, but the substrate was collected and could be incubated later in the laboratory for thorough inspection. There is one of them, some of Demateaceous hyphomycetes. (#4220 - https://www.cubby.com/pl/%234220/_74529dd5c6c94d00b7790b5bc5625884)

Common and well familiar Dasyscyphella cassandrae emerged at branches, where they are covered by wet litter. (#4210 - https://www.cubby.com/pl/%234210/_d8222ed3be7949f48de97027e4332297)

Another one on branches, Godronia sp. is not so common and i was glad to see its beautiful yellowish-brown goblets. There are several Godronia species on Ericaceous shrubs and the species will be specified later in lab time. (#4211 - https://www.cubby.com/pl/%234211/_f21eda0d776849cc912299a56099112c)

Several species with perithecia and fissitunicate spores easily seen on fallen leaves. Venturia cassandrae has small pear-shaped fruitbodies with sharp bristles at the top. Another one has similar structure of spores and asci, but the larger spherical perithecia. And the third with hairy perithecia, and ellipsoid spores with warty ormanentation.
(#4215 - https://www.cubby.com/pl/%234215/_736f8022b6c544e8a5dcab6fe6786a9d)
(#4217 - https://www.cubby.com/pl/%234217/_2f46703fc7854a278cb1ed015ec64778)
(#4214 - https://www.cubby.com/pl/%234214/_2548118e06bb483ca417e094c80542a5)

Lophodermium sp. was found at the leaf only once, but i expect to see them more often later in summer. The spores has weak gelatinous sheath, and small circular appendix at obtuse tip. (#4219 - https://www.cubby.com/pl/%234219/_70a0f51ea17441f8a7118b0adb25a615)

At the end, especially nice conidial species was spotted several times on well decayed leaves. It forms fusoid segmented structures on short stalks. (#4218 - https://www.cubby.com/pl/%234218/_51b46b7793ff43b792793e9ae801b609)