- Lorelei L Norvell. 2000 (September 30).
- Great Smoky Mountain National Park All-Taxa Biological Inventory Fungal
Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) 1999-2000 comprehensive report. Pacific
Northwest Mycology Service, Portland. 64 pp. (Report filed with Inventory
& Monitoring Coordinator, Ranger Keith Langdon, GSMNP headquarters,
Gatlinburg, TN).
- CONTENTS: This progress report, written primarily for the 90 members of
"TWIG Fungi" and Discover Life in America
website, summarizes the activities of the fungal TWIG from preparations for
the official Memorial Day (1999) GSMNP-ATBI launch through the summer of 2000.
The TWIG index includes addresses, specialties, and ATBI contributions of
volunteers and expert taxonomists. The 1999-2000 fungal database lists 1,349
collections (most still in need of expert identification), including at least
24 previously unreported species 'new' to the Park. A revised cross-index to
Macrobasidiomycete names and synonyms for species previously reported from the
Park is appended, as are auxiliary databases contributed by Baroni, Grand &
Vernier, and Rude; 1999-2000 press releases; and a (very) preliminary
bibliography.
- Lorelei L Norvell. 2000 (June 1).
- PNW-MS / BLM Cooperative Oregon Douglas-fir density management -
fungal community study: 1998-1999 Annual Report. Pacific Northwest
Mycology Service: Portland, Oregon. 33 pp. (Report on file
with Botanist Ron Exeter, USDI-BLM, Salem District Office)
- CONTENTS: In 1998 the author and BLM Salem (Oregon) District Botanist
Exeter initiated a 6-year study of the impact of forest thinning on epigeous
ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete species richness in a 55-year old Douglas-fir
forest on Green Peak in Oregon’s coast range. All epigeous non-ectomycorrhizal
basidiomycetes cited in the Northwest Forest Plan were also targeted.
Collections were sampled from five stands scheduled to undergo different
thinning regimes in 1999: untreated (“no-cut”), thinned (3 stands with 120, 80,
or 40 residual trees/acre), or regeneration-cut (0 residual trees/acre). The
report summarizes methodology and data collected during the first autumn and
spring mushroom seasons. Aerial views of the Benton County site accompany soil
composition, stand histories, and vegetation analyses of both transects in each
stand. Also included are a brief bibliography, a list of all epigeous
basidiomycete species cited in the 1994 FSEIS Appendix C-3, a list of epigeous
basidiomycetes previously reported from Oregon, a preliminary Inocybe coniferous
species index, the baseline pre-treatment list of 186 species (129 targeted)
identified from 676 collections, and species richness comparison graphs.
(Projects: BLM)
- Cited in Ecology & Management of Commercially Harvested
Chanterelles (Pilz et al. 2003).
- Lorelei L Norvell. 2000 (June 1).
- PNW-MS / BLM Cooperative Oregon Douglas-fir fungal community chronosequence
study: 1998-1999 Annual Report. Pacific Northwest Mycology Service: Portland,
Oregon. 29 pp. (Report on file with Botanist Ron Exeter, USDI-BLM, Salem
District Office)
- CONTENTS: In 1998 the author and BLM Salem (Oregon) District Botanist
Exeter initiated a proposed five-year study of epigeous ectomycorrhizal
basidiomycete species richness in 25-year old, 50-year old, and 150-year old
adjacent stands in Oregon’s coast range. Also targeted are all epigeous
non-ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes flagged in the Northwest Forest Plan. The
report summarizes methodology and data collected during the first autumn and
spring mushroom seasons. Aerial views of the Polk County site accompany soil
composition, stand histories, and vegetation analyses of both transects in
each stand. Also included are a brief bibliography, a list of all epigeous
basidiomycete species cited in the 1994 FSEIS Appendix C-3, a list of
epigeous basidiomycetes previously reported from Oregon, a preliminary
Inocybe coniferous species index, a list of 176 species (119 targeted)
identified from 452 collections, and species richness comparison graphs.
(Projects: BLM)
- Cited in Ecology & Management of Commercially Harvested
Chanterelles (Pilz et al. 2003).
- Lorelei L Norvell. 2000.
- Musings of a Mycological Miner - 2000. Research summaries on
North American macrofungi, lichens, and myxomycetes. McIlvainea 14(2):
51-73.
- CONTENTS: Summaries of 53 recent taxonomic, biological,
or ecological research papers (with references to 16 other articles)
are provided to aid mushroomers and other mycologists who lack
access to the technical literature. The author notes new species
and combinations representing agaric (Agaricus, Amanita, Boletus,
Cortinarius, Crepidotus, Flammulina, Lactarius, Phaeocollybia,
Russula), non-gilled Basidiomycete (Diplomitoporus, Ganoderma,
Laetiporus, Phlebiopsis, Scleroderma, Tyromyces), hypogeous
(Fevansia, Gastroboletus, Gastrosuillus, Gymnomyces, Hydnotrya,
Rhizopogon, Tuber), Ascomycete (Pezoloma, Sepedonium),
and slime mold (Trichia) genera. Erection of the new genus, Rhizomarasmius, is
noted. Phylogenetic analyses of many genera and fungal families
(Amylostereum, Armillaria, Calostoma, Collybia, Ganoderma, Hebeloma,
Hypoxylon, Laetiporus, Lentinellus, Myxomphalia, the cantharelloid
and clavarioid fungi) are also summarized. Keys and species descriptions
published in 8 issues of the British Mycological Society's "popular" journals, Mycologist and Field
Mycologist, are listed. Finally, formal proposals to conserve
the basionym of matsutake as T. matsutake and the genus Xeromphalina with
that spelling are noted. (See also Projects: Agaric Taxonomy and
Nomenclature)
- Lorelei L Norvell. 2000.
- Phaeocollybia in Western North America 1: The P. kauffmanii complex. Canadian
Journal of Botany 78: 1055-1076.
- ABSTRACT: Morphological and molecular investigations during a
taxonomic reevaluation of the genus Phaeocollybia revealed
four new agaric species from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon,
and California that are morphologically similar to P. kauffmanii.
All five species produce large basidiomes with brown pilei, stipes
with cartilaginous rinds surrounding dense pith, vertical-monopodial
pseudorhizae, large verrucose/verruculose, apically beaked basidiospores,
and thin-walled, clavate cheilocystidia. The most salient morphological
characters distinguishing the new species from P. kauffmanii include:
abundant clamp connections (P. ammiratii), a pink-/purple-brown
pileus lacking encrusting pigments in the pileipellis (P. benzokauffmanii),
a non-viscid, fibrillose, ochraceous pileus with a trilaminate
pileipellis (P. luteosquamulosa), and unusually large basidiospores
and subglobose subcapitate pedicellate cheilocystidia (P. redheadii).
An emended description of P. kauffmanii accompanies technical
descriptions and a key to the new species and newly revealed complex.
(See also Projects: Phaeocollybia)
- Lorelei L Norvell, Scott A Redhead. 2000.
- Phaeocollybia in Western North America 2: The vernal P.
pleurocystidiata sp. nov. and P. carmanahensis reconsidered. Mycologia 95:
984-991.
- CONTENTS: Examination of herbarium specimens and newly collected
basidiomes combined with molecular analyses of representatives
of several different taxa has uncovered the existence of a new Phaeocollybia species
from Washington, Oregon, and California. Phaeocollybia pleurocystidiata represents
the first species described from the United States and Canada known
to exhibit a vernal phenology. Morphological and molecular comparison
of the type of P. carmanahensis with newly collected material
reveals it to be conspecific with the earlier named P. oregonensis; an
emended description of P. oregonensis is provided. (See
also Projects: Phaeocollybia)
- -- Cited in Newsletter of the British Mycological Society
(2001 Library additions);
Mykoweb
(pdf) (Desjardin 2001)
- Lorelei L Norvell, Scott A Redhead. 2000.
- Stropharia albivelata and its basionym, Pholiota albivelata. Mycotaxon 76:
315-320.
- CONTENTS: The Northwest Forest Plan, which has designated 234
fungal species as important to Northern Spotted Owl forest habitats,
has classified Pholiota albivelata as a Strategy 1 Survey & Manage
species. After documenting acanthocyte formation on its mycelium,
the authors transfer the species to Stropharia. They also
propose the name Stropharia earlei for a related species, Pholiota
cubensis. (See also Projects: Northwest Forest Plan, Biodiversity)
- Scott A Redhead, Joseph F Ammirati, Lorelei L Norvell,
Michelle Seidl. 2000.
- Notes on western North American snowbank fungi. Mycotaxon 76:
321-328.
- CONTENTS: A common snowbank mushroom originally described by
AH Smith as Lyophyllum montanum has been shown to lack the
siderophilous granules characteristic of Lyophyllum. The
authors transfer the species to Clitocybe as Clitocybe
glacialis (non C. montana Harmaja). The synonymy of Hygrophorus
angelesianus and Clitocybe mutabilis is confirmed by
type studies. Neohygrophorus angelesianus is accepted as
the correct name and the new combinations N. cokeri (= Clitocybe
cokeri) and N. umbrino-purpurascens (= Clitocybe
umbrino-purpurascens) are proposed. A key to Neohygrophorus is
provided. (See also Projects: Agaric Taxonomy and Nomenclature)
- Redhead, Scott; Norvell, Lorelei. 2000.
- Here come really-common common names? [NAMA and MSA endorse a
commission to make recommendations; "1st List" not expected
for one to two years.] Mushroom, The Journal. 18(4): 5-8.
- CONTENTS: Both papers report on the Mycological Society of America
(MSA) exploratory committee research on the feasibility of a Commission
on Common Mushroom names. The committee of five successfully negotiated
an intersociety agreement between MSA and the North American Mycological
Association (NAMA). The rationale for a joint commission is presented
with the mandate and recommendations for composition of a recommended
seven-person committee. [NOTE: MSA and NAMA presidents appointed
Commission members --Dreiler, Norvell, Redhead (elected Chairman
by Committee members), Riner, Roger, Sundberg, Volk -- in September,
2000]. (See also Projects: Agaric Taxonomy and Nomenclature)
- Lorelei Norvell. 2000.
- Practical Mycology in the Twenty-first Century.
Inoculum
51(3): 50.
- ABSTRACT: Taxonomists emerging from sparkling molecular labs
and ivy- covered halls clutching a mycology degree all too frequently
find themselves ill-equipped to take the world by profitable storm.
The limited number of mycological posts in universities, government
and commercial labs need not stop the resourcefully dedicated,
however. In the PNW, environmental monitoring needs mycologists,
and those mycologists must be ready to get dirty, work outside
clean labs in less than pristine habitats, and deal with hard-nosed
loggers, commercial harvesters, sawmill owners, multiple government
agencies, nature clubs, and politicians. Fungal surveys are now
taking place in active logging areas, fresh cuts, precuts, dog-hair
thickets, second growth and old growth. What does it take to apply
knowledge of subtle bruising reactions and one-micron differences
in spore diameter obtained from scattered foreign publications
while straining to hear the tell-tale whine of a fully loaded logging
truck rushing down muddy roads amid the roar of chainsaws and crashing
trees as you inch toward the summit in 4-wheel drive with fogged
up windows, crackling shortwave and beating windshield wipers struggling
to clear heavy rain? Twenty inocybes, thirteen russulas, four hebelomas,
two chanterelles, two lattes, and one phaeocollybia later, more
data becomes available. Such is the life of contract mycology.
(See also Projects: Northwest Forest Plan, Biodiversity)
- Lorelei Norvell. 2000.
- The GSMNP-ATBI diaries.
Inoculum
51(1): 14-15,
Inoculum
51(2): 10,
Inoculum
51(3): 72,
Inoculum
51(4): 20,
Inoculum
51(5): 47-49;
Inoculum
51(6): 24-25.
"Great Smokies project has
a new coordinator" Mycophile 41(5): 11, 13. "Great Smoky
Mountain National Park All-Taxa Biological Inventory Fungal Taxonomic
Working Group (TWIG) 1999-2000 comprehensive report". On file at
Discover Life in America website <www.discoverlife.org>
- CONTENTS: Reports covering work done by the Fungal Taxonomic
Working Group (Norvell 1998-2000 TWIG Coordinator) as part of the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park All-Taxa Biological Inventory.
Included is coverage on continued collections by the "Asheville
Volunteer Fungal Department", identification of previously collected
specimens by volunteer expert taxonomists, names and activities
of new volunteers, Tree Canopy Biodiversity Project (coordinated
by Dr Harold Keller), and August selection of new Coordinator,
Dr David Porter. The 1998-2000 64-page report includes a nomenclature
update of macrobasidiomycetes. (See also Projects: Biodiversity)
- Scott Redhead, Lorelei Norvell. 2000.
- (The Askus column) Bugged? Ask a Mycologist. Mushroom, The
Journal. 18(2): 18-21.
- CONTENTS: Responding to letters on common names and name changes,
the authors comment the importance of allowing nomenclature to
follow the taxonomic discoveries uncovered by scientific research
and explain why Collybia radicata is not a Collybia and Xerula
furfuracea not X. radicata. "Actually we believe that
the average mushroomer has enough intelligence to expect their
scientists not to balk at using a scientific instrument [microscope]
invented over 300 years ago, even if it DOES mean not immediately
recognizing all species in the field." (See also Projects: Agaric
Taxonomy and Nomenclature)
- -- Cited in Mushroom, The Journal (Lincoff, 2000)
- Lorelei Norvell, Scott Redhead. 2000.
- (The Askus column) The contest is over and no one got them all
right -- but we still have a winner! Mushroom, The Journal.
18(1): 23-26.
- CONTENTS: The authors announce Richard Aaron as the winner of
the "Can you identify 43 mushroom species from 54 English names?" contest,
provide the latinized Pukey Point Fall Foray Master List and discuss
some of the taxonomic and nomenclatural ins and outs of species
on the list. "For instance, none of our authors missed a chance
to personalize the lowly stropharia semiglobata. In addition
to the listed dung roundhead, dung psilocybe, and dung slimehead,
this mushroom is called round stropharia, dung dome, hemispherical
stropharia, and manure roundhead. Groups of Mushroomers reading
aloud these common names might vaguely sound like The Society for
Polite Swearing and Cussing." (See also Projects: Agaric Taxonomy
and Nomenclature)
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