Cultured from: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207275547
Submitted by Pat Mitchell @gnomie_87
Found emerging from a dead gnat in a humidity chamber. Assumed to be Erynia sp. based on macroscopic features (couldnt photograph)
N. cf thromboides is known from gnats (also originally described from mites that look a lot like the mite that was attached to this gnat…), but isn’t noted to have villose conidia so this may be Conidiobolus coronatus but I can’t find confirmation of that species on gnats.
Last photo shows villose conidia. Insanely large nucleated germ tubes (red bubbly tubes) with spindly conidiophores producing one apical conidia
Under oak, maple, and sycamore growing from soil.
The closest sequence in Genbank is at 82% - except for one soil fungus sequence from North Carolina that's 99.18% similar. This is likely an undescribed species or a species that has been described a long time ago but has not been sequenced.
Near oak and other hardwoods in moss in a peninsula in Ohrbach Lake
Anamorph, on rabbit dung
1.5cm across
On a rotting hardwood log
Hairs around 0.8mm long
Spores 20x15µm
Medium to large isolated warts
Hairs up to 30µm thick, hair wall 7µm thick
Septa a little hard to see - doesn't look like there are tons
Hairs tapering
One or two roots
On 10 day old incubated deer dung