During our workshop in Thimphu, Bhutan this month we have encountered what would appear to to match Campanophyllum proboscideum, a fungus known from Mexico south to Ecuador (and further down?). It it attached by a peculiar snout-like dorsal extension - hence the epithet. It was found on 4 big logs in a wet montane forest in upper Thimphu Valley (Dodena) and was photographed by Morten Christensen.
Is there any reason why you call it "mystery fungus"?
ReplyDeleteIt was known as such for a decennium or so before being redescribed
ReplyDeleteAnd here in Bhutan we have it growing in culture and producing fruit bodies.
ReplyDeleteHow sad we didn't collect the specimen, but I found it in Royal Botanical Park in Lamperi in 2021
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