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MUSHROOMS, LICHENS AND OTHER FUNGI

(Kingdom Fungi, Phylum Mycota)

J. Ginns, S.A. Redhead and T. Goward

Table 1. Taxonomic diversity and numbers of Fungi reported from the Montane Cordillera.

GROUP GEOGRAPHIC AREA

Montane Cordillera British Columbia

ASCOMYCOTA

Deuteromycetes 170 [-]

Discomycetes 56 [-]

Erysiphaceae 12 [-]

Lichens 725 (1150) 1350 (1800)

Pyrenomycetes, et al. 73 [-]

Taphrinales 1 [-]

Miscellaneous micro

ascomycetes on plants [-] 1050

BASIDIOMYCOTA

Gasteromycetes 22 [57]

Heterobasidiomycetes 8 [50]

Hymenomycetes

Agaricales 157 [491]

Aphyllophorales

Corticiaceae 52 [317]

Hydnaceae, et al. 8 [43]

Polyporaceae 70 [162]

Exobasidiales 6 [-]

Combined Basidiomycota (excluding rusts & smuts) [-] 1250

Teliomycetes

Uredinales 109 [-]

Ustilaginales 9 [-]

Combined

Teliomycetes [-] 425

MISCELLANEOUS

Chytridomycetes (Chytridiales) 1 [-]

Myxomycetes 1 [-]

Oomycetes (Peronosporales) 1 [-]

Miscellaneous

Microfungi totals [-] 995

Totals 1481 5070

Numbers in parentheses are estimates of the total mycoflora, while those in square brakets are included in another tally and therefore not totalled again in the sum.

[-] indicates no detailed tally attempted.

Table 2. Rare and infrequent macrolichens of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone (after Goward 1996 and Goward, unpublished).

Agonimia tristicula

Agrestia hispida

Alectoria imshaugii

Anaptychia setifera

Arctoparmelia subcentrifuga

Baeomyces carneus

Baeomyces placophyllus

Caldonia coccifera

Caldonia cyanipes

Caldonia luteoalba

Caldonia macrophylla

Caldonia parasitica

Calicium adspersum

Calicium corynellum

Calicium salicinum

Calicium trabinellum

Catapyrenium daedaleum

Chaenotheca stemonea

Collema auriforme

Collema bachmanianum

Collema coccophorum

Collema cristatum

Collema glebulentum

Collema multipartitum

Collema subflaccidum

Collema subparvum

Dermatocarpon rivulorum

Endocarpon pulvinatum

Ephebe hispidula

Ephebe perspinulosa

Evernia divaricata

Flavopunctelia flaventior

Fuscopannaria "saubinetii"

Fuscopannaria ahlneri

Fuscopannaria leucostictoides

Fuscopannaria mediterranea

Gonohymenia nigritella

Gyalideopsis piceicola

Heppia lutosa

Hydrothyria venosa

Hypocenomyce friesii

Hypocenomyce leucococca

Lasallia pensylvanica

Leciophysma furfurascens

Lempholemma polyanthes

Leptogium burnetiae

Leptogium cyanescens

Leptogium furfuraceum

Leptogium schraderi

Leptogium subtile

Lichinella stipatula

Lichinodium canadense

Lobaria retigera

Lobaria silvae-veteris

Massalongia cf. microphylliza

Melanelia agnata

Melanelia commixta

Melanelia olivaceoides

Melanelia septentrionalis

Melanelia subargentifera

Melanelia trabeculata

Microcalicium ahlneri

Neofuscelia loxodes

Neofuscelia subhosseana

Nephroma isidiosum

Parmelia squarrosa

"Parmeliella" cheiroloba

Parmeliella triptophylla

Peltigera evansiana

Peltula euploca

Phaeophysica adiastola

Phaeophysica hirsuta

Phaeophysica hispidula

Phaeophysica nigricans

Physconia isidiigera

Physica biziana

Physica dimidiata

Physica tribacia

Pilophorus cereolus

Placynthium flabellosum

Placynthium nigrum

Placynthium stenophyllum

Placynthium subradiatum

Platismatia stenophylla

Psora cerebriformis

Psora montana

Ramalina cf. intermedia

Rhizoplaca peltata

Sclerophora amabilis

Sclerophora peronella

Solorina bispora

Solorina octospora

Stereocaulon glareosum

Sticta oroborealis

Sticta wrightii

Teloschistes contortuplicatus

Umbilicaria krascheninnikovii

Umbilicaria lambii

Umbilicaria lyngei

Umbilicaria muehlenbergii

Vestergrenopsis isidiata

Xanthoparmelia mexicana

Xanthoparmelia planilobata

Xanthoria sorediata

Zahlbrucknerella calcarea

Table 3. The biogeoclimatic zones for rare and/or endangered lichens of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone (after Goward 1996 and Goward, unpublished).

BUNCHGRASS ZONE

Flavopunctelia flaventior

Heppia lutosa

Leptogium schraderi

Massalongia cf. microphylliza

Phaeophyscia hirsuta

Physica tribacia

Physcia dimidiata

PONDEROSA PINE ZONE

Lichinella stipatula

Phaeophyscia hirsuta

Physica tribacia

INTERIOR DOUGLAS-FIR ZONE

Agreshia hispida

Anaptychia setifera

Collema auriforme

Ephebe hispidula

Phaeophyscia nigricans

Ramalina cf. intermedia

Teloschistes contortuplicatus

Zahlbrucknerella calcarea

INTERIOR CEDAR-HEMLOCK ZONE

Alectoria imshaugii

Baeomyces carneus

Baeomyces placophyllus

Calicium adspersum

Calicium corynellum

Calicium salicinum

Calicium trabinellum

Chaenotheca stemonea

Caldonia cyanipes

Caldonia luteoalba

Caldonia parasitica

Ephebe hispidula

Ephebe perspinulosa

Evernia divaricata

Fuscopannaria ahlneri

Gyalideopsis piceicola

Lempholemma polyanthes

Leptogium cyanescens

Lobaria retigera

Lobaria silvae-veteris

Lichinodium canadense

Microcalicium ahlneri

Phaeophyscia adiastola

Pilophorus cereolus

Sclerophora amabilis

Sclerophora peronella

Sticta oroborealis

Stica wrightii

ENGELMANN SPRUCE-SUBALPINE FIR ZONE

Cladonia coccifera

Hydrothyria venosa

SUB-BOREAL PINE-SPRUCE ZONE

Melanelia olivaceoides

Seterocaulon glareosum

SUB-BOREAL SPRUCE ZONE

Phaeophyscia hispidula

Seterocaulon glareosum

Table 4. Tentative list of uncommon, rare or possibly rare non- lichenized fungi and their known frequency in the Montane Cordillera Ecozone (see Categories 1-5 in text, [4] = Rare; [5] = indeterminate status).

BASIDIOMYCOTA

Gasteromycetes

Battarrea stevenii

[5] Once, Kamloops, BC (Schalkwijk-Barendsen 1991).

Rhizopogon canadensis

[5] Once, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon cinnamomeus

[5] Once, near Balfour, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon columbianus

[5] Once, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon defectus

[5] Once, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon florencianus

[5] Once, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon hawkerae

[5] Three collections, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon molallaensis

[5] Once, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon ochraceorubens

[5] Once, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon pseudoroseolus

[5] Once, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon roseolus Corda sensu Smith

[5] Once, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon rubescens var. ochraceus

[5] Twice, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon rubescens var. rubescens

[5] Three collections, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon rubescens var. rileyi

[5] Once, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon subcaerulescens var. subcaerulescens

[5] Once, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon subcaerulescens var. subpannosus

[5] Three collections, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Rhizopogon subsalmonius

[5] Once, near Nelson, BC (Harrison and Smith 1968).

Hymenomycetes

Agaricales

Hemimycena cyphelloides

[4] Twice, Glacier Nat. Park and near Golden, BC (Redhead 1982, 1997a).

Hemimycena nebulophila

[4] Once, Glacier Nat. Park (Redhead 1982, 1997a).

Hemimycena substellata

[4] Once, Glacier Nat. Park (Redhead 1982, 1997a).

Hemimycena albicolor

[5] Rocky Mountain Trench (Redhead 1997, 1997a).

Hemimycena ignobilis

[4] Columbia Mountains (Redhead 1997).

Marasmius caricis

[4] Once, north of Golden, BC (Redhead 1981).

Marasmius tremulae

[5] Once, Glacier Nat. Park (Redhead 1989).

Mycena tubarioides

[4] Twice, Glacier Nat. Park and near Golden, BC (Redhead 1984c).

Mycenella nodulosa

[4] Columbia Mountains (Redhead 1997).

Mythicomyces corneipes

[4] Once, Glacier Nat. Park (Redhead and Smith 1986).

Ossicaulis lignatilis

[5] Once, near Quesnel, BC (Redhead and Ginns 1985).

Pachylepyrium carbonicola

[5] Columbia Mountains, on burnt ground now flooded by the Revelstoke dam (Redhead 1997).

Pholiota brunnescens

[5] Columbia Mountains, on burnt ground now flooded by the Revelstoke dam (Redhead 1997).

Pholiota molesta

[5] Columbia Mountains on burnt ground now flooded by the Revelstoke dam (Redhead 1997).

Pseudobaeospora pillodii

[4] Columbia Mountains (Redhead 1997).

Psilocybe sabulosa

[4] Thompson-Okanagan Plateau (Redhead 1997).

Resinomycena montana

[5] Once, Rocky Mt. Trench (Redhead 1989, Redhead and Singer 1981).

Rimbachia neckerae

[4] Once, Glacier Nat. Park (Redhead 1984b).

Stagnicola perplexa

[5] Once, Galcier Nat. Park (Redhead and Smith 1986).

Xeromphalina brunneola

[5] Once, Kananaskis Prov. Park, Alberta (Redhead 1988).

Xeromphalina cirris

[5] Once, Glacier Nat. Park (Redhead 1988).

Clavariaceae

Typhula mycophaga

[4] Once, Glacier Nat. Park (Berthier et Redhead 1982).

Corticiaceae

Gloeocystidiellum clavuligerum

[5] Once, Quesnel, BC (Ginns and Freeman 1994).

Gloiothele citrina

[5] Twice, Banff Nat. Park and Clearwater, BC (Ginns and Freeman 1994).

Laxitextum bicolor

[5] Once, Quesnel, BC (Ginns and Freeman 1994).

Scytinostromella heterogena

[5] Once, Cinema, BC (Ginns and Freeman 1994).

Scytinostromella humifaciens

[5] Three collections, Silverton, BC (Ginns and Freeman 1994).

Polyporaceae

Albatrellus caeruleoporus

[4] Once, Spahats Prov. Park, BC (Ginns 1997).

Albatrellus syringae

[4] Once, Glacier Nat. Park (Ginns 1997).

Heterobasidiomycetes

Syzygospora subsolida

[4] Once, Glacier Nat. Park (Ginns 1986).