V OMPHALINISSN 1925-1858 Foray registration & information issue Vol. VI, No 3 Newsletter of Apr. 16, 2015 OMPHALINA OMPHALINA, newsletter of Foray Newfoundland & Labrador, has no fi xed 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-profi t 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 CANADA … who eagerly invites contributions to OMPHALINA, dealing 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 OF 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 fi rst. No picture, no paper. Michael Burzynski Material should be original and should deal with the mycota PRESIDENT of Newfoundland and Labrador. Cumulative index and detailed Information for Authors available on our website. Geoff Thurlow MYCOLOGICAL TREASURER COVER Dave Malloch Tina Leonard NB MUSEUM Gyromitra ambigua, Birchy Brook SECRETARY Nordic Ski Club trails, Goose Bay, Labrador, August Jim Cornish AUDITOR 8, 2012. Those of sharp memory will know that we Jamie Graham Gordon Janes have used this photo once before inside the journal, BONNELL COLE JANES but we liked it so much that now it will grace the Anne Marceau cover of an issue devoted to the false morels. This Faye Murrin LEGAL COUNSEL will be the only time in this issue you will see that Michele Andrew May term. Piercey-Normore BROTHERS & BURDEN Helen Spencer Marian Wissink OMPHALINA V Vol. VI, No 3 OMPHALIN ISSN 1925-1858 Apr. 16, 2015 CONTENT Editor’s comments .................................. 2 Foray matters ......................................... 3 Genus Gyromitra in NL Miller et al. ......................................... 4 G. esculenta .......................................... 7 G. gigas ................................................. 8 G. gigas—species or complex? ............ 10 G. ambigua ........................................... 11 G. ancilis ................................................ 12 G. leucoxantha ..................................... 13 Gyromitra KEY for NL ................................ 15 Hydnotrya cubispora Henry Mann ....................................... 16 Foray 2015 Registration Form ................ 18 Suillus bresadolae Moreau et al. ..................................... 20 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 Welcome to our Gyromitra issue, timed the same information this year as last. to help you identify these spring species. Please refer to our website <www. Ordinarily, the earliest ones begin fruiting nlmushrooms.ca> for information, at press time, and continue until the end of as well as last year’s Foray issue May, but this year you may have to wait a [OMPHALINA 5(4)], also downloadable few weeks for the snow to melt a bit fi rst! from the website. In addition each Only a few fruit in the autumn, like the one of the four subsequent issues carried a on the cover. And one found underground, description of each of the four econiches but see inside for yourself. in Gros Morne National Park that you may There is a big advantage to multiauthor want to download. articles. Up to the last proof, the name of Because for six years our Foray has been the last author was misspelled. Only one fully subscribed, with more people on the co-author spotted it. Had we had only six waiting list than we can accommodate, authors, such an intolerable calamity would distribution of the Foray notice issue is have remained! However, an article is not staggered: members fi rst, and general only a product of the authors; there are release later. Take advantage of this privilege many other contributors. The results would of membership to register early, if you have been different had we not had good are planning to join us this year. It may be European material, much of it sent by two diffi cult to think Foray with oodles of snow of our past faculty, Gro Gulden and Esteri still on the ground, but we are already in Ohenoja. We are very grateful for their help. the last half of April, so time is moving faster Then, check out the Mail page, taken over by than the seasons. the announcement of a new fi nd for North By the way, of the Gyromitra authors, the two America. The best part is that you already Andy Ms will be among our faculty this year. know this mushroom from last issue, only If there is something in the article that you this time it bears a different name. liked, don’t bottle it up. Come to the Foray This is also the issue when we announce and tell the Andys yourself! our upcoming Foray, as the editor is doing Now, register, then stride forth boldly and from a Gros Morne Red Chair, with the identify gyromitras! Western Brook Gorge behind him. Please see Foray Matters, next page, and the Registration Form, page 18. Since our Foray See you at the Foray! will take place again in our spectacular andrus UNESCO World Heritage Site, Gros Morne National Park, we are not going to repeat 2 OMPHALINA FForayoray matters…matters… ForayForay 20152015 inin GrosGros MMorne!orne! huhhundredsndndreedds ooff vovvolunteerolulunntteeeer coccollectorsollllece tot rsrs wwhohhoo hhaveaave scscouredcoureed thtthee prprovinceovinncec dduringurining ththehe lalaststst ttwelvewelve foforays.rays Each ofofuswhohasb us who has broughtrought bacbackk a I’ve lived and worked in the Gros Morne mushroom for identifi cation during a foray National Park area for more than 25 years. has contributed to the fungal herbarium, I know many parts of the park as intimately the photograph collection, and the as I know my own garden. I’ve hiked specimen database that FNL has amassed. and climbed and skied and boated and Those specimens have been shipped to helicoptered to places that few visitors researchers around the globe, and have will ever experience. But I still do not really helped them clarify the murky world of understand Gros Morne—there is so much fungal relationships. that goes on out of sight, and so much of it is fungal. With each foray we learn a bit more about the diversity and distribution of mushrooms Until Foray Newfoundland and Labrador and lichens in this province. With each held its fi rst event in Gros Morne in 2003, foray we make a small contribution to almost no work had been done on the fungi the worldwide understanding of fungi. of the area. Lichens had been collected by With each foray, someone gains an Teuvo Ahti, Stephen Clayden, and others, appreciation of organisms that they had and some forest fungi had been identifi ed, completely overlooked in the past. but apart from that, the mycota of the park was unknown. We have now held four Perhaps a rare mushroom that you fi nd forays in Gros Morne, and our fi fth will occur will be the star of Foray 2015, but even in September. According to the cumulative a common species can add to our species curve that Andrus compiles each knowledge of the park and the province. year, we are nowhere near exhausting the Forays are fun, the people who attend are potential of Gros Morne to provide new fascinating, and the results are scientifi cally species. And I don’t just mean new to us. important. As the title almost says: Forays Several fungi collected in the park area Matter. have turned out to be previously unknown to science. Four years of forays in Gros Please note that as last year, we will begin Morne have only scratched the surface. the foray with a mycoblitz at Sir Richard Squires Memorial Provincial Park, leaving Foray Newfoundland and Labrador has the parking lot at exactly 11:00 am, Friday raised the profi le of fungi and lichens September 25th. If you can join us, please throughout this province. The work that we bring your own lunch! do during forays is fun and educational, and it is also extremely valuable. No Our website <nlmushrooms.ca> and province could afford to hire all of the OMPHALINA vol 5, nr 4, has information on how experts who have so generously donated to get there and other important matters. their time and expertise to us over the years. No government agency could mobilize the Michael Burzynski OMPHALINA 3 THE GENUS GYROMITRA IN NL Andrew N. Miller, Abraham Matlak, Daniel Raudabaugh, Kadri Pärtel, Heidi Tamm, Andrew S. Methven, Andrus Voitk Inves ga on of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Gyromitra ABSTRACT revealed six species (including Hydnotrya) in the province, adding two new molecularly confi rmed species to what has been reported for the con nent. The phylogeny for G. gigas suggests that globally it may be a species complex; further study is required.