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Top 100 Candidate species for targeted surveys - non-lichenized Ascomycota
Information on the target species will be developed over the coming months. The table below contains those that are already featured in this website...
| Species (links to species information) | Associated organisms/substrata | When to look | Localities | Last recorded (pre project) | Successful search (during project lifespan) | British sites | ||||
| Pre-1965 | 1965-June 2014 | July 2014-present (LAFF) | Extant (since 1965) | |||||||
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Anthostomella alchemillae | Known from dead leaves of Alchemilla alpina | May-Sept | A Scottish endemic based on current records, fairly widely distributed in western montane sites where the host occurs but not recorded frequently in recent times | 1986 | Yes | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
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Biscogniauxia marginata | In GB&I, on dead Malus bark. Known elsewhere from various hardwood species, mostly belonging to the Rosaceae | Jan-Dec? | England (NE Yorkshire) | 1910 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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Cryptomyces maximus | A weak parasite of Salix branches, sometimes associated with mechanical damage | Feb-Dec, probably Jan-Dec. | Recent records from Wales (Pembrokeshire), a single new locality in Shropshire, and large populations in Scotland (Renfrewshire, and widespread throughout Orkney). | 2013 | Yes | 5 | 7 | 27 | 29 |
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Daldinia petriniae | A Daldinia concentrica look-alike found on Alnus (alder). | Jan-Dec | Single sites recorded in North Hampshire, Surrey, Worcester, and Warwickshire. | 1998 | Yes | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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A fairly conspicuous brown discomycete on dead attached and fallen branches of Carpinus betulus (hornbeam). | Jul-Oct | Confirmed records from Surrey and Hertfordshire, possibly also from Kent | 2004 | Yes | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Geoglossum uliginosum | An earthtongue from boggy areas, often associated with Sphagnum. | Sept-Oct | Scattered throughout England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales | 2007 | Yes | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
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A spring-fruiting species of sand dunes, associated with Populus and Salix. | Apr-May | Records only from Wales (Carmarthenshire and Glamorgan). Not seen despite recent searches. | 2006 | Known sites regularly surveyed without any observations. | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Parasitic on Hymenochaetopsis tabacina (=Hymenochaete tabacina), usually found associated with Salix spp. | Jan-Dec | The only confirmed recent records are from Wales (Radnorshire), and now also from Scotland (Berwickshire). | 1993 | Yes | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
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Hypoxylon fuscoides | A Hypoxylon fuscum (hazel woodwart) lookalike, on Alnus or Betula spp, apparently favouring Alnus incana. | Jan-Dec? | Known from Ireland (County Down and County Armagh), England (Buckinghamshire, Cornwall and Derbyshire), and Wales (Glamorgan). | 2011 | Yes | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
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Lasiobotrys lonicerae | A fungus forming clusters of tiny black circular stromata on living leaves of Lonicera (honeysuckle). | Jun-Aug | About 17 records from GB&I; most modern reports are from northern Scotland, also Yorkshire and Wicklow (ROI). | 2005 | Yes | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 |
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Microglossum atropurpureum | A purple-brown to purple-black earthtongue with colourless spores, found in unimproved grassland. | Aug-Feb | Widely distributed but infrequently recorded in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. | 2013 | Yes | 24 | 62 | 2 | 63 |
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On dead leaves and culms of Trichophorum caespitosum s.l. and probably other related sedges. | Mar-Aug | Now known from south England, Wales, and Scotland, often present on the first handful of Trichophorum sampled at each site. | 1987 | Concluded - to be assessed as Least Concern. | 2 | 1 | 21 | 22 |
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Mollisia subglobosa | On felled trunks of Ilex aquifolium, in association with Nectria punicea var. ilicis. | Dec-Feb | Records from England (S Hampshire and Somerset) and Wales (Pembrokeshire). | 2013 | Yes | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
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Phaeosphaeria silenes-acaulis | A minute perithecial species found on dead leaves and bracts of Silene acaulis. | May-Oct | Reported from Scotland (Mull and Rhum); recently found also in Shetland and Snowdonia. | 1974 | Yes | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Pithya vulgaris | A small orange-yellow disc fungus on the bark or rarely needles of trees in the pine family (Pinaceae). | Jan | England (South Northumberland, South-west Yorkshire) | 2014 | Yes | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
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A parasitic ascomycete with bright red stromata on living leaves of blackthorn, cultivated plum and hybrids. | May-Oct | At one time widely distributed, but now much more restricted in location. Largely confined to the west coast of Ireland, SW England and west Wales, but also now known from SW Scotland. | 2010 | Yes | 38 | 7 | 20 | 25 |
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Poronia erici | A fungus with a 3-8 mm diam. nail- or golf-tee like fruitbody growing in rabbit or pony dung; a Poronia punctata lookalike but smaller with larger spores. | Mar-Nov? | Known only from two sites in West Norfolk and one in East Suffolk. Possibly overlooked and more widely distributed, especially if mistaken for P. punctata. | 2011 | Yes | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
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Pseudoyuconia thalictri | A saprotroph on Thalictrum flavum with minute perithecial fruitbodies and distinctive spores | Mar-Apr | Known in GB&I from two collections in East Suffolk, and East Norfolk | 1991 | Yes | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Rutstroemia johnstonii (=Dencoeliopsis johnstonii) | Apparently restricted to stromata of Xenotypa aterrima, itself a rarely encountered species on recently dead branches of Betula. | Feb, Jun, and Oct, possibly also months in between | Recent records from England (Surrey) and N Ireland (Londonderry); now also reported from three localities in Scotland (two in Lanarkshire and one in Angus) | 2006 | Yes | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
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Saprobe or weak parasite on wood of Vaccinium uliginosum (bog bilberry). | Jun-Jul (probably also later) | Scotland (historical record from W Perthshire; now also reported from E Inverness and Moray) | 1907 | Yes | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Stigmatula astragali | A biotrophic parasite on leaves of Astragalus danicus (purple milk-vetch), visible as tiny black spots on swollen or enlarged pale yellow leaves. | Aug | Scotland (E Lothian) | 1953 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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In GB&I, on dead (burnt) wood of Ulex europaeus (gorse). Elsewhere on wood and bark of various legumes. | Jan-Dec? | England (S Hampshire); first found in 2014, re-found on the same site in 2015, and at three further locations in the New Forest. | 2014 | Yes | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
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Xylaria crozonensis | Probably a saprobe; known from bark of Betula, Corylus and Quercus. | Mar-Nov | England (VC2 East Cornwall, and VC1 West Cornwall) | 2013 | Yes | 0 | 3 | 20 | 22 |