Jen McDonald

I'll e-mail you my thesis when it's done: the systematics of Resupinatus and its relatives. :p

Just put in a suggestion for a different name.

Cheers, Mark!

If te size doesn't correspond, then I think you're down to 2 options. Either it's the new species that looks like a Hohenbuehelia but is actually a Resupinatus (a new species not yet described from New Zealand) or its actually a Hohenbuehelia. What makes me think it's a "hoh" is the fact that it has a much lighter margin than the rest of the cup, and that looks glue-y and translucent when fresh

You are most welcome. The Australasian species of Resupinatus have been especially headache-inducing in my research...lots of new species to science that are mislabelled, going as far back as 1850 in Australian herbaria! It's been an interesting challenge for me. After discovering Project Noah this evening, a whole new source of information is now at my fingertips! This website is great :)

And thanks for the blog comment!

I've seen those nanopore devices. They look pretty neat! At $900 it's still way out of my price range, but eventually they will come down in price just like every other piece of technology. Then I'll be in line to get one!

I'm going to hold off on your offer of sending it to me, only because I'm in my final push of writing up my thesis and getting it submitted to defend my degree. If I do take you up on your offer in the next couple of months (are you planning on keeping it that long?), then you would be a co-author on the sequence once deposited in GenBank, thanked profusely in any paper that used your sequence, and I can of course e-mail you a text file with your sequence in it (and the pretty colour graph if you'd like. You could download a free electropherogram viewer to see it)

I think this is Resupinatus trichotis!

Great pics! With the black afro on the back of the cap where it attaches to the substrate, I'm willing to be that's actually Resupinatus trichotis.

Hi there

I think what you have there is a Hohenbuehelia. They used to be considered closely related to Resupinatus, but actually aren't. If it is actually a Resupinatus, I would apply the name Resupinatus cinerascens (a species similar to R. applicatus, but known only from Australia)

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! I also wouldn't mind my own USB stick sequencer...the one in my lab is a bit, um, expensive. And rather large to carry out into the field... :)

This is a fantastic find! This is actually a species that belongs to the group I'm studying for my Doctorate. The species would historically have been called Resupinatus applicatus, but now I know there are actually 5 or 6 species within that complex indistinguishable by eye. Without sequencing its DNA, I wouldn't be able to put a name on it.
The frosting on the top of the gill, as you pointed out (good eye!), are special cells called cheilocystidia. They act as protection for the fungus by fungus-beetles that graze on the nutrient-rich spore-bearing surface. A way for the fungus to protect its babies :)