The Fungi Key
Here you will find a key to identify each fungi species on the painting, just follow the instructions.
Just look at the following image, which is an outlined version of the painting, look for the fungi you’d like to identify, remember it’s number and then go ahead and follow the list to read it’s scientific name. I am currently working on uploading every fungi name, thank you for your patience. Happy fungi identifying!
The Fungi Painting Key
Ascomycota Division:
Saccharomycotina Phylum
1. Candida albicans
2. Cordyceps militaris
3. Saccharomyces cerevisiae
4. Candida albicans
5. Pseudohyphae: Candida albicans
6. Budding Yeast Cell
7. Saccharomyces boulardii
8. Cordyceps capitata
9. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis on Camponotus leonardi (ant)
10. Hesperomyces virescens on Harmonia axyridis (ladybug)
11. Saccharomyces cerevisiae stained with safranin in petri dish
12. Cephaloascaceae sp.
13. Accumulation of blastospores in Candida Albicans
14. Yarrowia lipolytica producing carotenoids on petri dish
15. Reproduction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by budding yeast
16. Yarrowia lipolytica
17. Chlamydospore of Candida albicans
18. Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Pezizomycotina Phylum
19. Penicillium chrysogenum
20. Penicillium notatum
21. Peziza violacea
22. Tuber melanosporum
23. Cookenia speciosa
24. Morchella esculenta
25. Hypomyces lactifluorum
26. Xylaria hypoxylon
27. Chlorociboria aeruginascens
28. Helvella crispa
29. Cyttaria espinosae
30. Trichoglossum hirsutum
31. Flavoparmelia caperata
32. Sordaria macrospora
33. Phillipsia domingensis
34. Chorioactis geaster
35. Microstoma protactum
36. Verpa bohemica
37. Chain of Conidia of Alternaria
38. Scutellinia scutellata
39. Xylaria tentaculata
40. Leotia viscosa
41. Podostroma cornu-damae
42. Mitrula paludosa
43. Claviceps purpurea
44. Microglossum olivaceum
45. Elaphomyces muricatus
46. Poronia punctata
313. Urnula craterium
Taphrinomycotina Phylum
47. Taphrina caerulscens
48. Neolecta irregularis
49. Schizosaccharomyces pombe
50. Schizosaccharomyces octosporus
51. Taphrina life cycle: development of asci and sporogenesis
52. Unguiculella globosa
53. Taphrina life cycle: development of haploid nuclei, ascospores forming
54. Neolecta irregularis
55. Taphrina life cycle: mitosis of diploid nucleus, proascus and basal cell forming
56. Protomyces macrosporus “tubes” with spore balls emerging, magnified
57. Taphrina life cycle: dikaryotization
58. Taphrina life cycle: dikaryon stage
59. Prunus spinosa with Taphrina pruni
60. Taphrina deformans
61. Pneumocystis carinii
62. Taphrina pruni
63. Taphrina deformans
64. Epidermis, mycelium and elongation of the subcuticular cells into tubes of Taphrina pruni
65. Taphrina populi-salicis
66. Gradual formation of spores in Taphrina pruni stalk cell
67. Budding ascospore in the sexual cycle of peach leaf infected with Taphrina deformans
68. Sporulation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
69. Ascospore discharge from fissitunicate asci of Taphrina deformans
70. Operculate asci of Taphrina deformans expelling spores
71. Protomyces macrosporus’s mycelium with mature ascus
72. Spore discharge of Protomyces macrosporus
73. Protomyces macrosporus spore biting
74. Pneumocystis jirovecii
75. Spores of Protomyces macrosporus
76. Protomyces macrosporus mycelium
77. Lichen thallus
Zygomycota Division:
Kickxellomycotina Phylum
78. Zygomycota Life Cycle
79. Coemansia aciculifera
80. Coemansia mojavensis
81. Conidiobolus coronatus
82. Conidiobolus coronatus
83. Coemansia aciculifera
84. Conidiobolus spp
85. Coemansia braziliensis: Mature Zygospore of anomalous type
86. Coemansia braziliensis
87. Coemansia mojavensis: stages of pseudophialides in acrogenous development of unispored sporangiole
88. Linderina pennispora
89. A sporulating head of Ramicandelaber brevisporus
90. Coemansia mojavensis: fruiting structures
91. Comansia aciculifera
92. Dymargaris dimargaritales
93. Tieghemiomyces californicus
94. Linderina pennispora
95. Coemansia braziliensis: Mature zygospore of normal type
96. Coemansia aciculifera: late stages of maturation
97. Linderina pennispora colony in petri dish
98. Linderina pennispora
Entomophthoromycotina Phylum
99. Architectonics of Entomophthoraceous Conidia
100. The lower fungi: Ballocephala sphaerospora
101. Conidiobolus coronatus
102. Ballocephala sphaerospora parasitizing tardigrade
103. Completoria complens
104.Conidiobolus coronatus
105. Conidiobolus coronatus with spherical conidia
106. Conidiobolus coronatus
107. Conidiobolus firmipilleus
108. Conidiobolus brefeldianus
109. Hyphal Bodies of Entomophthora Muscae
110. Hyphal Bodies of Entomophthora Muscae
111. Development of microconidia on a ballistospore
Zoopagomycotina Phylum 112-122
112. Amoebophilus sp. with sporangial hyphae emerging from an ameba
113. Piptocephalis frescaeniana
114. Rhopalomyces elegans
115. Piptocephalis frescaeniana
116. Piptocephalis frescaeniana
117. Rhopalomyces elegans
118. Rhopalomyces elegans: assimilative hyphae
119. Rhopalomyces elegans
120. Conidiobolus firmipilleus occurring on leaf mold
121. Conidiobolus firmipilleus on agar petri dish
122. Conidiobolus firmipilleus
Mucoromycotina Phylum123-137
123. Mucor circinelloides
124. Lichtheimia corymbifera
125. Mucor Brunneogriseus
126. Phycomyces sporangiophores
127. Mortierella moitospor branched
128. Pilobolus crystallinus
129. Phycomyces blakesleeanus
130. Phycomyces nitens
131. Mortierella mortierellales
132. Mortierella mortierellales
133. Mortierella meiospor branched
134. Choanephora cucurbitarum
135. Choanephora cucurbitarum
136. Mortierella meiospor
137. Mucor subtilissimus
138. Phycomyces blakesleeanus
Chytridiomycota Division:
Chytridiomycetes Phylum
139. Cladochytrium replicatum
140. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
141. Allomyces sporophyte
142. Synchytrium endobioticum parasitizing and causing potato wart
143. Globomyces pollinis-pini
144. Rhizophydium amoebae
145. Rhizophydium polystomum
146. Angulomyces argentinensis
147. Rhizophydium spinosum
148. Rhizophydium chytriomycii
149. Rhizophydium coronum
150. Rhizophydium echinatum
151. Rhizophydium coronum
152. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
153. Zoospores of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Monoblepharidomycetes Phylum
155. Gonapodya polymorpha
156. Monoblepharis macrandra
157. Antheridium and oogonium from monoblepharidales
158. Oogonia gonapodya
159. Oedogoniomyces lymnaeae
160. Oogonia gonapodya
161. Harpochytrium sp
162. Allomyces javanicus
163. Moblepharella taylori
164. Gonapodya polymorpha: Tallus with zoosporangia
165. Gonapodya prolifera
166. Monoblepharella sp.
167. Asexual Allomyces javanicus
168. Moblepharella taylori: sporangium releasing spores
169: Phlyctochytrium Acuminatum
Basidiomycota Division:
170: Basidiomycete Life Cycle
Ustilaginomycotina Phylum
171. Ustilago maydis
172. Calviceps purpurea
173. Tilletia controversa
174. Corn smut fungus: Coloured scanning electron micrograph of Ustilago maydis
175. Exobasidium vaccinii
176. Exobasidium rhododendri
177. Ustilago heufleri
Agaricomycotina Phylum
178. Marasmius haematocephalus
179. Dacryopinax spathularia
180. Clitocybe atroviridis
181. Trametes versicolor
182. Pleurotus pulmonarius
183. Favolaschia calocera
184. Amanita muscaria
185. Schizophyllum commune
186. Mycena chlorophos
187. Hericium erinaceus
188. Agaricus bisporus
189. Leratiomyces bresinsky
190. Cyathus striatus
191. Pleurotus ostreatus
192. Pleurotus eryngii
193. Ganoderma lingzhi
194. Stropharia aeruginosa
195. Strobilomyces strobilaceus
196. Cortinarius sanguineus
197. Laccaria amethystina
198. Clavaria zollingeri
199. Pleurotus ostreatus
200. Coprinopsis atramentaria
201. Lycoperdon umbrinum
202. Yeast state of Cryptococcus neoformans
Gasteromycetes Phylum *
Now considered an obsolete classification
203. Phallus indusiatus
204. Clathrus archeri
205. Astraeus hygrometricus
314. Panus fasciatus
203. Psilocybe semilanceata
316. Pleurotus djamor
206. Pisolithus tinctorius
207. Mutinus elegans
208. Scleroderma texense
209. Phallus impudicus
210. Lycoperdon perlatum
211. Mutinus caninus
212. Geastrum fimbriatum
213. Leratiomyces erythrocephalus
214. Lysurus crusiatus
215. Clathrus ruber
Pucciniomycotina Phylum
216. Eocronartium muscicola
217. Puccina punctata
218. Puccinia coronata
219. Puccinia asparagi
220. Puccinia lagenophorae
221. Pucciniaceae
222. Puccinia monoica
223. Puccinia calcitrapae
224. Puccinia oxalidis
225. Puccinia graminis
226.Puccinia malvacearum
227. Puccinia glechomatis
228. Puccinia punctiformis
229. Puccinia graminis on wheat
230. Puccinia graminis
231. Gymnosporgarium sabinae
232. Puccinia melitenensis
233. Puccinia rust
234. Puccina caricina
235: Coprinus comatus
Fungi Imperfecti Division
Hyphomycetes Phylum
236. Epicoccum nigrum
237. Cladosporium cladosporioides
238. Acrogenospora ellipsoidea
239. Helicodendron wasserpilz
240. Nodulisporium sp.
241. Varicosporina ramulosa
242. Helicoma fumosum
243. Lylea catanulata
244. Cacumisporium sigmoideum
245. Fusarium sp.
246. Helminthosporium solani
247. Corynespora laevistipitata
248. Conidial characteristics: celled ameroconidia
249. Trichotesium roseum
250. Monodictys paradoxa
251. Sporodochium of Metarhiziopsis microspora
252. Conidia moulds
253. Acrogenospora ellipsoidea
254. Fusarium sp.
255. Flabellospora verticillata
256. Curvularia lunata
Coelomycetes Phylum 257- 286
257. Ascochyta spp.
258. Pycnidium cross section
259. Neoscytalidium dimidiatum
260. Coelomomyces santabrancae
261. Microsphaeropsis arundinis
262. Steganosporium pyriforme
263. A pycnidium of Phoma
264. Colletotrichum coccodes
265. Hypoxylon fragiforme
266. Asexual reproduction in mitosporic fungi: pycnidium
267. Phoma exigua spores
268. Asexual reproduction in mitosporic fungi: Synnema
269. sphaeropsidales
270. Cicinnobolus sphaeropsidales: Perithecium
271. Phoma radicina
272. Cicinnobolus cesatii
273. Splanchnonema pupula
274. Trichocladia estragali
275. Synemma graphium
276. Blastocladia angusta
277. Pycnidium phoma
278. Phoma radicina
279. Acervulus colletotrichum
280. Cicinnobolus sphaeropsidales: Perithecium with appendages turned downwards
281. Leptothyrites dominicanus
282.Cicinnobolus sphaeropsidales’s mycelium with appressoria and haustorium
283. Development of the Pycnidium: celled pseudo-parenchymous stage
284. Sphaerellopsis filum
285. Pycnidia of Cicinnobolus
286. Culiseta inornata
Agonomycetes Phylum 287-311
287. Thermomyces verrucosus
288. Thielaviopsis basicola
289. Conidium formation of Monascus ruber
290. Stigmina pedunculata
291. Thermomyces verrucosus
292. Monilia cinerea
293. Sporidesmium subulatum
294. Saccharomyces ludwigii
295. Penicillium claviforme
296. Leptographium lundbergii
297. Aspergillus niger
298. Alternaria brassicae
299. Transverse section of young conidiophore
300. Spiropes melancoplaca
301. Curvularia inaequalis
302. Tritirachium album
303. Corynespora cassiicola
304. Arthrinium japonicium
305. Ascocorticium anomalum
306. Tritirachium album
307. Ascospores and conidia of Broomella acuta
308. Doratomyces stemonitis
309. Trichocladium asperum
310. Scopulariopsis brevicaulis
311. Spiropes melancoplaca
312. Penicillium sp.
The Center:
A. In the beginning: the mystery of life.
B. fungal cell wall
C. Prototaxites honeggeri
D. From Bonneville et. al 2020: Molecular identification of fungi microfossil in a Neoproterozoic shale rock.
E. Ouraspharia giraldae
F. Prototaxites honeggeri
G and H: At the time of creating this painting the phylums Mesochytriomycetes, Hyaloraphidium and Sanchytriomycetes from the division Chytridiomycota were still little researched and no visual representation from the fungi could be found by Caro. So, instead of placing these fungi, Caro decided to let mycelium take over the areas designated for these classes.