WHICH MEANS THERE ARE MORE THAN 2 MILLION SPECIES OF FUNGI TO BE DISCOVERED.

Etymology. Name reflects the environment, a mountain, from which this

fungus was collected.

Classification

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Nectriaceae, Hypocreales, Sordariomycetes.

https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/588712/Fungal_Planet_description_sheets_371a-399.pdf

Described by: Isabelle Desjeux

Description.

Habitat: tropical forests

Nutrition: saprophytic. Feeds on dead coconut tree trunk

Roussoella mexicana,

Phyllosticta carissicola,

Ochroconis pandanicola

Describes where you can find your fungus and what it feeds on. Here are some examples below (from Crous et al, 2015)

Eucalyptus radiate leaves

Soil

Rotted stem ends of cacao fruit

Fruit rot of guava

Eucalyptus leaf litter

Mango leaf

Coffee arabica leaf

Submerged decorticated wood

Littoral sand dunes

Gut of grasshopper

Screen of a mobile phone

Exposed xylème tissue of Beechwood

Loamy soil

Nitrified grasslands

Cave sediments

Description (of hyphae, sporance, ascomycete, spores or of fruiting body)

It lives near pine and mapple trees

Builds a catapult structure to throw up its spores again and travel along with them

lives in the forest

Can change color like a chameleon

It spread its spores in the water.

Svamp som enbart finns i munnen på polarräv, där den lever av matrester och utsöndrar antibiotiska ämnen som räven har nytta av. Den sprider sig mellan olika rävar när de träffas och slickar varandra.

Lives on the drift wood on the beach in Bali.

Discovered by: Anonymus

This fungus is found at the estuary of rivers. It has a hairy appearance (on the right)

The fruiting body (top left of the picture) has a sail that allows it to float away. Below left are the spores;

Bloomus Fungus. Lives on swampy land in the southern hemisphere. The fungus blooms once every 3 years.

Lives in most flower beds.

Thrives near people who are in disagreement.

Can become invasive and grow out of proportion when unattended.

It spreads it’s pores fast when watered.

Lives on algae

Found rotating in water

Symbiotic with algae

Mates on the hyphae

Lives in tree bark.

It releases its spores from berry like blobs.

It grows inside the tree bark.

It helps the tree move water through the tree.

Discovered by Baltsar Klädnypa

Feeds on dead trees

Spreads its spores by pollination

Feeds off sunscreen residue from human skin cells. It can be found in hybrid climate mostly common in tropical soil. Symbiotic relationship with human skin cells. Spreads it spores by spitting mucus into moist and dry sand soil, that is absorbed and by human skin cells and then spread by skin cells.

Loves on pine needles

Use a latinised Binomial name as the title

Discovered by: Use your own name or your "explorer name"

Etymology: Here you can give an explanation for the name you chose

Lives/Found on: Describe which environment the fungus was found in. Be as specific as you like (from geographic location to climate or specific environment, or structure)

Characteristics: describe one or more of the following

• Which class of Fungus does it belong to?

• How it spreads its spores

• How it grows

• Which special communication skills it has

• What it feeds on

• Which species it lives with (symbiotic)

Morphology (represent one or more):

Hyphae: the tube-like structures which branch out, network and create the dense mycellium

Spores: the tiny seed-like structures that float away from the main fungus to create a new fungus

Sporange: The structure that contains all the spores

Mushroom: also called the fruiting body. Made up of the hyphae, carries the spores, often in a recognisable shape

Function (Think about a main one)

Mating: the hyphae will need to connect to mate and create a new fungus

Nutrition: Feeding happens through the tube-like hyphae

Communication: Feeding happens through the tube-like hyphae

Spreading Spores: the spores need to disperse far from the parent fungus to start a new life far away.

1. Take a picture. Keep the background dark to make it "pop".

2. Then on Padlet, you can click the + to add your fungus: upload your picture. You do not have to log in to add your fungus image and the description all at once.

3. Add in the description (If you did log in, you can go back to your fungus later to modify it)