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Thanks to @kruzkalke for pointing this plant out to me and encouraging me to photograph it.

Original species description: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233623493_Tiputinia_foetida_a_new_mycoheterotrophic_genus_of_Thismiaceae_from_Amazonian_Ecuador_and_a_likely_case_of_deceit_pollination

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Morchella galilaea (identified by DNA analysis) fruiting in Monsoon Rainforest at Stoney Creek. Located on Stoney Creek in and around two eroded gullies feed by deep springs. Soils are free draining red metamorphic earths and are rich in organic matter. This morchella may be saprophytic at this location. A disjunct population is located 30 metres to the east on walking track. At this location the fruiting bodies are smaller and fewer. Extensive searches to date have found no other fruitings at any other locations in the region. It is more than likely that this species has been vectored here by tourists frequenting the area.

Growing under Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica). This was well into wild country in the Coconino National Forest, with no man-made landscape mulch or bark chips in the vicinity.

No visible spore print in 24 hours.

I have kept a small air-dried fragment if anyone wishes to have it for a microscopy or DNA study.

Morel- genus Morchella
Lago Brown, Aysén Region

Found in a partial scree field on a slope north of the west end of Lago Brown. Lots of shrub vegetation like Baccharis species, romerillo, chaura, and calafate. Plenty of exposed rock with lichens, and some bare soil. Plenty of little bryophytes like the little green firework-like ones that are in the photos. Nearby lots of lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) forest of varying ages.

Recognized by sight: Randomly arranged black ridges and yellowish pits, sinus , granulose stem with enlarged chambered base and peach coloration, on ground under dead standing and living spruce in area of 2015 burn at about 8000’ elevation, soil temps 46 degrees, sizes range from 6- 9 cm tall (hymenophores 3-6 cm tall).

DNA Sequenced.