I was very excited to see this plant on the New Dixie Mine Road at Ruby Mountain back in 2011! While wandering around in the first hour, I came across this specimen, which immediately looked different to me from the Monoptilon bellioides in the Borrego Desert.
Thanks to RT Hawke, who had the Jepson Desert Manual, we were able to immediately key this to M. bellidiforme.
We looked for the "1 plume-tipped bristle" in the pappus in the field, which was very hard to see. But I finally found it with a hand lens.
Even after seeing it by eye in the field with my hand lens, I had to hunt in my photographs to find it. I've marked the bristles in three pix, which are accompanied by the unlabeled pix, presented first, if you want to try to find it first on your own. (:-) Try it on pix #9, #11, and #13, before looking at the labeled pix #10, #12, and #14.
A much easier way to distinguish these species is the ray length, at least when the ray length is not 5.0 mm. The ray length for M. bellidiforme is 3-5 mm (the entire corolla is 5-7 mm, including the claw); and 5-8.5 mm (6-11.5 mm) for M. bellioides.
The pix with a ruler here shows the ray length for this plant is 3.8-4.0 mm, well within the range for M. bellidiforme.
From the one or two plants here, it is tempting to conclude that M. bellidiforme makes up for its smaller flowers by having tons more of them. But in the Cactus Flat Road area, we found plants with just a few flowers each.
The last pix here was taken two hours later, at 5:42 p.m. Monoptilon flowers close in the late afternoon.
I thank Tommy Stoughton for alerting me to the wonderful bloom in this area.
Sleeping in the wings of a Lupinus hirsutissimus flower.
Disclaimer: This observation includes ALL the photographs I intended to take of this particular organism. That may NOT include images of the entire organism, all of its defining characteristics, or the general area in which it was found. I am already aware that this may reduce the likelihood of a species level identification.
Young pup. Mom and dad were close by.
MDP 381. Rare. Found growing in moss matt of cool north facing crevice in steep tallus field. Tentative ID pending specimen determination.
quite cold at the time of observation and the insect was unresponsive - but not perhaps dead
Apparently it's been 7 years since I first stumbled on this weird little disjunct population, so I was thrilled to see it was still kicking this weekend. If you visit it, please don't pick a thallus like I did 7 years ago to check the lower surface. I've only been able to find a few nearby patches of it so I imagine the population is quite small and it probably needs every square milimeter of thallus. Frankly, they're probably much more threatened by a poorly-operated grader or a pack of rototilling pigs, but still, worth being careful.
Found later in the day after combing Elephant Rock. @catchang & Shelly Benson ( 3 & 4th shots )after Eureka moment of Target Sps.
Pink mushrooms similar to Marasmiellus candidus on eucalyptus twigs. Pileus light pink, wavy and wrinkled. Lamellae wavy and forking, with veinlike lamellulae, concolorous with pileus. Stipe tough and wiry, light pink to grey.
See also observation 480664. On a grass culm, likely Ammophila sp. Very small, 1 – 2 mm in diameter.
Found by Ava Arvest.
Microscopy by Jack Johnson, who says:
“I have used Rolf Singers monograph to Favolaschia, and landed in “Species incompletely known” and did not find any matches, although It is possible that more recent resources could bear better fruit.
Seems to be in the subsect. Depauperatae but again I’m aware this subsection may have more recently been divided/reassessed.
Spores, broadly elliptic to subglobose, most always with a single droplet and a strong apical plug
(7.4) 7.5 – 10.6 (12.4) × (5.2) 5.3 – 6.8 (6.9) µm
Gloeocystidia and gloeovessels present in KOH. Two types of cystidia observed."
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Mother and two cubs eating catkins of Quercus gravesii.
On suillellus amygdalinus, pink color throws me off
In duff under redwood, Umbellularia, Notholithocarpus, and Vaccinium ovatuim
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With Dardanus calidus, see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21756331
I observed a total of 9 individuals (following the first rainfall we've had in over six months) within a two meter square. Two were following another. The one being followed was moving slower, and then dug completely into the sand.
Growing in a mossy area under redwoods and mixed conifers. Odor of wet flour.
Very fluorescent in 365 nanometer UV light.
I think. Found on a freshly fallen redwood. Likely would have been up in the canopy somewhere.
On Quercus agrifolia wood
Trail side in predominately redwood stand with scattered Sitka spruce and grand fir nearby.
Beautiful bright golden gills, and a faint lilac shade on the cap
Backyard!!!!
Leucistic RTHA that has been in this area for a bit.
increíble espectáculo de la llegada masiva de la "mariposa blanca" a El Ejido El Águila, Cacahoatán, en la zona de influencia de la Reserva de la Biosfera Volcán Tacana
Found while hiking the trail to Chaparral Mountain, which can be rather hard to find in many parts of the second half. I blogged my hike here.
Pretty boy - this is the male of the species.
Host mushroom chanterelle, found in the coast range of Oregon. Research and suggestions led to entoloma parasiticum as the most likely candidate.