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Byssonectria terrestris
Byssonectria terrestris (orange cup fungi in center of photo) with Nannfeldtiella aggregata.
"Subiculum less than 2 mm thick, arachnoid, covering and binding leaves, mosses, pine needles, and twigs and on soil in areas where animals have urinated; dung sometimes present." Donald H. Pfister. A Synopsis of the North American Species of Byssonectria (Pezizales) With Comments on the Ontogeny of Two Species. Mycologia, 85(6), 1993, pp. 952-962. https://pfistergroup.oeb.harvard.edu/files/dpfister/files/pfister_byssonectria.pdf
Byssonectria terrestris is a species of fungi in the Pyronemataceae family.
Similar to Byssonectria fusispora, but with colonies that tend to be more aggregated, sometimes with a well-developed pale subiculum. Ascomata are often slightly paler, paraphyses have curved rather than straight tips and ascospores are slightly smaller and not or hardly apiculate. Ascospores measure 20.5-23 (mean 21.8) x 8.4-9.1 (mean 8.8) µm in water, 18.2-20.7 (mean 19.6) x 6.4-7.5 (mean 7.1) µm in lactic.. more
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Mothing, I can only agree, is and endless source of fun and biodiversity. I wish I had discovered this discipline earlier, but it's never too late. The area I live in is not great for mothing, so I'm not a steady contributor. Where I can, we try to bring the idea on our remote travels. Last year was the first time we did so. Moths are the 2nd most numerous category documented here at JD, after birds. We documented about 1,500...out of 160,000 :)
Needless to say, don't hold back sharing your archive here. Posted 6 years ago
I came to mothing late also and am amazed at the species diversity here. It isn't like the tropics but they weren't under glaciers for the past 500,000 years or so!
Once the seasonal glacier recedes (what some people call winter) I'll be out in the woods again. I've got some contracts that will be taking me to some different places in Minnesota so more photos of different things. Posted 6 years ago