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Lichenomphalia Oreades, Mt Ignoble, October 6, Se C R E Ta R Y 2012 V OMPHALINISSN 1925-1858 Vol. VIII, No 6 Newsletter of Sep 27, 2017 OMPHALINA OMPHALINA, newsletter of Foray Newfoundland & Labrador, has no fixed schedule of publication, and no promise to appear again. Its primary purpose is to serve as a conduit of information to registrants of the upcoming foray and secondarily as a communications tool with members. Issues of OMPHALINA are archived in: is an amateur, volunteer-run, community, Library and Archives Canada’s Electronic Collection <http://epe. not-for-profit organization with a mission to lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/omphalina/index.html>, and organize enjoyable and informative amateur Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Queen Elizabeth II Library mushroom forays in Newfoundland and (printed copy also archived) <collections.mun.ca/cdm/search/ collection/omphalina/>. Labrador and disseminate the knowledge gained. The content is neither discussed nor approved by the Board of Directors. Therefore, opinions expressed do not represent the views of the Board, Webpage: www.nlmushrooms.ca the Corporation, the partners, the sponsors, or the members. Opinions are solely those of the authors and uncredited opinions solely those of the Editor. ADDRESS Foray Newfoundland & Labrador Please address comments, complaints, contributions to the self-appointed Editor, Andrus Voitk: 21 Pond Rd. Rocky Harbour NL seened AT gmail DOT com, A0K 4N0 … who eagerly invites contributions to OMPHALINA , dealing CANADA with any aspect even remotely related to mushrooms. E-mail: info AT nlmushrooms DOT ca Authors are guaranteed instant fame—fortune to follow. Authors retain copyright to all published material, and submission indicates permission to publish, subject to the usual editorial decisions. Issues are freely available to the BOARD O F DIRECTORS CONSULTANTS public on the FNL website. Because content is protected by authors’ copyright, editors of other publications wishing to use any material, should ask first. No picture, no paper. Michael Burzynski Material should be original and should deal with the mycota PRES I DEN T of Newfoundland and Labrador. Cumulative index and detailed Information for Authors available on our website. Geoff Thurlow MY co L O G ica L TRE A SURER COVER Dave Malloch Tina Leonard NB MUSEU M Lichenomphalia oreades, Mt Ignoble, October 6, SE C RE ta RY 2012. If you think the picture looks vaguely familiar, Jim Cornish AUD ito R you are right. You have seen it inside these pages Jamie Graham Gordon Janes before. With another name. The why, where & how BO nn ELL COLE JA N ES are inside. Anne Marceau Faye Murrin LEG A L CO UNSEL Michele Andrew May Piercey-Normore BROTHERS & BURDE N Helen Spencer Marian Wissink OMPHALINA V Vol. VIII, No 6 ISSN 1925-1858 OMPHALIN Sep 27, 2017 CONTENT Editor’s comments .................................. 2 Erratum: never assume! Andrus Voitk ..................................... 3 Lichenomphalia oreades Lücking, Thorn, Saar, Piercey-Normore, Moncada, Doering, Mann, Lebeuf, Voitk & Voitk 1. Executive summary .......................... 5 2. Lichenomphalia grisella—NOT! ........ 6 3. Mail & customs stories ...................... 8 4. Mt Ignoble......................................... 9 5. Lichenomphalia velutina? .................. 10 6. L. oreades—description ...................... 12 7. Basidiolichens of NL ............................. 15 8. The oreades....................................... 16 9. Clamp connections ........................... 17 Lichens of Salmonier Nature Park Wiersma & McMullin ............................ 18 Partners ......................... inside back cover Notice ...................................... back cover This issue and all previous issues available for download from the Foray Newfoundland & Labrador website <nlmushrooms.ca>. OMPHALINA Message from the Editor V ISSN 1925-1858 The foray is barely a month behind us, and preparations are already being made for the next MPHALIN one. A Report issue will appear in due course. In O the meanwhile, content yourselves with this offering, devoted to keep you abreast of new developments at the outer edge of the advancing mycological envelope made by studies of our own lichenized mycota. *** Remember the cover on the right: July, 2014, an entire issue devoted to a single species from atop Vol. V, No 7 Mt Ignoble? The species was identified asArrhenia Jul. 30, 2014 obscurata. Hints that two species might be involved OMPHALINA were dismissed out of hand as totally illogical by one Newsletter of of the authors, one AV. There were, of course, two species. Hence, we recently have come out in full force. also know who was totally illogical. The adventures associated with identifying the second species, WARNING: once seen, it will steal your heart. Lichenomphalia oreades, are recounted in this issue. Our second article reports on a recent publication Why all this fuss for one small, brown mushroom most about the lichens of Salmonier Nature Park (and, in of us will never see? And the second time yet? Well, turn, refers to an earlier publication of lichens in some because: of our other provincial parks). The report appears in the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, which, 1. Past errors must be set aright. under its earlier name, The Bulletin of the Torrey 2. We have an omphalinoid as the FNL logo and Botanical Club, is the oldest natural history journal in OMPHALINA as the name of our journal, so we have an the Americas. This was where Charles Peck published obligation to get at least these mushrooms right. Both his earliest reports of new mushroom species Arrhenia and Lichenomphalia were part of Omphalina (considered to be plants at the time), before his at one time, so if we do not get it right the first time, various Reports of the Botanist of New York State. then we try however many times it takes. As for “most of us will never see one”—come on over, and we’ll take you up to Mt Ignoble to look for Happy mushrooming! some. It took Maria and me over ten years, before we noticed the first one. This year they were absent earlier, likely because of the hot, dry summer, but just 2 OMPHALINA ERRATUM NEVER A SSU M E ! Andrus Voitk Photo: Roger Smith Of all the wise things Faye Murrin has told me over alone several, species elbowing each other for a the years, the above title has stood the test of time chance to grow on and out of bare rock during frost above all others. Sure, her original advice was made and snow. (OMPHALINA , vol. 5, nr 7, p 10). in reference to an assumption that somebody else The quote should be attributed to “A. Voitk ex Voitk would bring the beer to the foray—as she predicted, a et al.”, to indicate that although it comes from an potential recipe for disaster—but it has proven equally article by several authors, this particular part is the applicable to other areas of life. Take, for example, contribution of one single individual and should not this quote, from an article discussing a small brown be attributed to the innocent others. In my defense, omphalinoid mushroom found in cracks atop Mount initially I could not discern two clearly different groups. Ignoble: Under the microscope, it seemed to me that all had … is it possible that our collections are, indeed, of clamp connections (Figure 1) at most septa. Actually, several species? Theoretically, yes, but our combined after I established that for the first six, I assumed they many hundred years of observing life on this earth all had clamp connections, making no further effort to argue strongly that it is unlikely to find another, let document this for the remainder. Never assume! Photos: Renée Lebeuf Figure 1. LEFT: Typical clamp connections (yellow arrows) at septa of the Arrhenia obscurata from Mt. Ignoble. RIGHT: Clampless septa (red arrows) of Lichenomphalia oreades from Mt Ignoble. OMPHALINA 3 What is the significance of clamp connections, you doubt about it: there were two similar but separate might ask? Well, in this setting they are of seminal species growing in this very small and inhospitable importance. The dramatic thing about these environment, sometimes in very close proximity to mushrooms was that they lacked an obvious source each other (Figure 2). of nutrition. The sites where they grew had almost How is it possible that I did not note the absence no organic matter to support a saprobic lifestyle, and of clamps of about 25% of specimens? Well, firstly, there were no nearby vascular plants that could be absence of a character is easier to miss than its mycorrhizal partners. Looking for alternate partners, presence. After seeing no clamps in the first six, I we noticed small algal granules around some of assumed they were all the same and stopped looking these mushrooms. A partnership with algae was for clamps, concentrating mainly on spores and basidia. an attractive explanation, but so far the only agaric Every once in a while clamps were noted in passing, basidiomycetes (cap and stem mushrooms) known because clamped specimens were more abundant to have a partnership with algae belong to the genus than unclamped ones. And, of course, there is the Lichenomphalia. One of the characteristic features of power of conviction that one’s assumption is correct. this genus is the lack of clamp connections (Figure One of my notations read, “basal clamp not obvious 1). Therefore, to find an agaric basidiomycete algal (possibly subtle?).” Of course, on review this turned partner with clamps would be a new discovery. out to be a clampless specimen! I was so convinced of Then Greg Thorn found that the DNA of one of the rightness of my assumption of clamps that I was these mushrooms matched something identified as prepared to fit contrary observations to my theory. Lichenomphalia grisella. But Lichenomphalia do not have OK, just to set things aright, assumption is not a sin. clamps. Enter Robert Lücking. Not weighed down by In fact, it is the basic tool for formulating scientific my assumptions, he offered the obvious explanation: theories.
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