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14 Records
Status
Spore photos are required to separate Mitrula elegans and Mitrula lunulatospora. Place photos identified by macro characteristics only here. Found scattered or in small groups in shallow woodland bogs or barely moving sections of small streams, on decaying leaves, needles, or debris.
Description
Fruiting body: Yellow-orange smooth, translucent "matchstick" head on pale stalk (J. Solem, pers. comm.).
Seasonality Snapshot
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A Swamp Beacon species in Howard Co., Maryland (7/10/2013).
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Bonnie Ott.
A Swamp Beacon species in Garrett Co., Maryland (5/25/2013).
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Jim Stasz.
A Swamp Beacon species at Calvert Cliffs SP, Calvert Co., Maryland (5/6/2013). Identified by Lance Biechele.
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Ed Boyd.
A Swamp Beacon species (fruiting bodies) in Howard Co., Maryland (4/8/2010).
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Robert Solem.
A Swamp Beacon species in Garrett Co., Maryland (6/2/2013).
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Jim Brighton.
A Swamp Beacon species in Wicomico Co., Maryland (1/1/2013).
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Bill Hubick.
A Swamp Beacon species in Worcester Co., Maryland (5/1/2014).
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Wesley Knapp.
Swamp Beacon species in Garrett Co., Maryland (5/22/2021).
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Jim Stasz.