LAFF Home Coastal Habitats Grasslands and Meadows Parkland to Woodland Upland and Montane Fungal Groups Month-by-month
Top 100 Candidate species for targeted surveys in wet heathlands to wetland habitats
Information on the target species will continue to be developed over the coming months. The table below contains those that are already featured in this website.
| Image (click for images) | Species (click for species details) | Brief description | When to look |
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Anthracoidea limosa | A smut infecting ovaries of Carex limosa (bog-sedge). | Jul-Aug |
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Anthracoidea pulicaris | A smut infecting ovaries of Carex pulicaris (flea sedge). | Jul-Aug |
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Armillaria ectypa | A honey fungus found in marshes, upland bogs and reed beds. | Jul-Oct |
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Bovista paludosa | A small white puffball associated with mosses in calcareous fen habitats. | May-Nov |
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Geoglossum uliginosum | An earthtongue from boggy areas, often associated with Sphagnum. | Sept-Oct |
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Mollisia fuscoparaphysata | A minute black/brown discomycete on dead leaves and culms of Trichophorum caespitosum s.l. and probably other related sedges. | Mar-Aug |
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Multiclavula vernalis | One of the few lichenized basidiomycetes in the UK, producing brightly coloured club-shaped fruit-bodes on blue-green patches of damp or wet peat or peaty soil. | Mar-Aug |
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Puccinia cicutae | A rust on leaves of Cicuta virosa (cowbane). | Jun-Oct |
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Puccinia cladii | A rust found on living leaves of Cladium mariscus (great fen-sedge). Considered to be rare by Wilson & Henderson. | Mar-Sept |
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Rutstroemia johnstonii (=Dencoeliopsis johnstonii) | A small discomycete apparently restricted to stromata of Xenotypa aterrima, itself a rarely encountered species on recently dead branches of Betula. | Jun-Oct |
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Urocystis primulicola | An ovary smut of Primula farinosa (birds' eye primrose). The host is typically found in wet calcareous flushes, near springs, or unimproved damp grazed pasture. | Jul-Sept |
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Ustanciosporium gigantosporum | An ovary smut of Rhynchospora alba (white beak-sedge). | Aug-Nov |