Includes Myxos and Bacteria
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A weird Basidio-mold; super xerophillic and is often found growing on old maple syrup. I've tried leaving plates of syrup out but they always crystallize before anything grows. The Wallemiomycet... Mais
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A fern parasite which I've never seen. In Pucciniomycotina, but was formerly put in Taphrinales (Asco!) - MEREDITH BLACKWELL, JOSEPH W. SPATAFORA, in Biodiversity of Fungi, 2004
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A Bryophyte parasite whose fruiting bodies mimic moss sporangia
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Pucciniomycotina, Found on Live Oaks and uses Scale insects as straws to suck out Oak juice. Creates a protective layer though which helps the scales that manage to stay uninfected.
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A rust who hijacks *Arabis* (and other Brassicaceae) species and makes them form spermatogonial "pseudoflowers" which mimic distantly related species (eg. *Ranunculus*). Then the insects facilitate... Mais
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A fungus that lives symbiotically with leaf-cutter ants in da rainforest. iNat has a cool obs of some fruiting bodies that apparently came up after the ants abandoned a colony.
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A very ugly and rare lichen that lives in California. Wikipedia says it's a main source of Litmus dyes
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A very handsome young man considering he's coprophilic. I hope to find this species someday.
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A very epic and range-restricted Asco (Pezizales) who only grows in Texas and Japan. My first journal post concerns him.
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A member of the Sordariomycetes (Asco) who infects Bracken Ferns (*Pteridium*)
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Includes several slime mold parasites, Stilbocrea gracilipes, Ovicuculispora, etc.
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Damon Tighe's facebook post informed me of these guys; apparently they grow on Bay Laurel around the Bay Area. Still looking to find my own. (Sclerotiniaceae)
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The only genus of Taphrinomycotina (Asco) which makes fruiting bodies instead of just being a lame dimorphic yeast or something.
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(Didymium, Diderma, Lepidoderma, Mucilago). Didymium clavus was the first non-Fuligo slime I ever found, and it blew my mind. Diderma has some particularly cool species (asteroides, subastero... Mais
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