Learn about the Mushrooms and Fungi from the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador.
The Mushrooms and Fungi from the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador are essential functional components of the Amazonian ecosystem as decomposers, symbionts, and pathogens and they represent one of the most biodiverse groups of organisms on earth.
However, our knowledge of their diversity and ecological function in Neotropical Amazonian Lowland forests is limited. The ecological interaction of macrofungi with other organisms in these forests is poorly understood due to the largely unexplored, but likely huge, fungal diversity, as well as the cryptic and ephemeral nature of many fungal species.
A major part of the global but unknown fungal biodiversity is assumed to occur in tropical regions, where the diversity of fungi may be higher than in temperate regions, because of more favorable environmental conditions throughout the year, a higher diversity of vascular plants that create niches and microhabitats for fungi, and the presence of many ecotones.
The diversity of macrofungi in tropical forests showed that the highest diversity in the Neotropics occurred in the Amazon basin with aphyllophoralean, pyrenomycetous, xylariaceous and hyphomycetous fungi being most species-rich.
The Amazon Rainforest is the perfect location if you would like to become a Fungi, the constant humidity combine with heat, the same one you feel in the ambiance as you drop off the airplane from the rustic airport, that unpleasant humidity turns out to be, the perfect combination for fungi to diversity in the Amazon Basin.
Mushrooms and Fungi from the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. All taken at Shiripuno Amazon Lodge in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.
The Mushrooms and Fungi in the Amazon Rainforest plays an important role in the ecology of this huge wilderness, these organisms do a critical job of decomposing all kinds of materials from the forest itself.
Mushrooms and Fungi from the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. All taken at Shiripuno Amazon Lodge in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.
Everything is a resource in the forest, watch it: From an old and finished canopy leaf falling to the ground where the community of mushroom, fungi, and many invertebrates specialized in turning useful everything to the basic elements of nature: Carbon, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, and Oxygen.
Mushrooms and Fungi from the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. All taken at Shiripuno Amazon Lodge in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.
A tiny portion of the colors and shapes of the diversity of Mushrooms and Fungi of the Amazon Rainforest, can be found during a short walk in the trails nearby, move slowly, fix looks in the ground, along trunk, nearby a light gap can be very rewarding, some mushrooms and fungi are still in use by indigenous people to treat, diseases or food in some cases.
Mushrooms and Fungi from the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. All taken at Shiripuno Amazon Lodge in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.
The diversity of Mushrooms and Fungi from the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador captured in photos after a short walk around the trails of Shiripuno Amazon Lodge. Enjoy it.
Where to find them?
Light Gaps
Rotting Trees
The soil in Terra Firme
Soil in Varzea
Territories
Have fun finding them in the forest.
The Mushroom and Fungi are organized in the following order:
ASCOMYCOTA: CUP FUNGI
Cookenia tricholoma
Cookenia speciosa
Phillipsia domingensi
Daldinia eschscholzii
Entonaema pallida
ASCOMYCOTA: CORDYCEPS & ALLIES
-discovered by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1859.
Cordyceps cylindrica
Metacordyceps martialis
Ophiocordyceps amazonica
Ophiocordyceps nutans
Ophiocordyceps australis
ASCOMYCOTA: XYLARIA & ALLIES
Camillea leprieurii
Xylobotryum portentous
Xylaria telfairii
Xylaria sp
Thamnomyces chordallis
BASIDIOMYCOTA: JELLY FUNGI, GASTEROMYCETES, CORAL
Auricularia fuscosuccinea
Auricularia delicata
Dacryopinax spathularia
Tremella fuciformis
Tremellodendron schweinitzii
BASIDIOMYCOTA: GASTEROMYCETES
Laternea dringii
Phallus sp.
Staheliomyces cintus
Clathrus sp
Geastrum schweinitzii
Myriostoma coliforme
Lycoperdon nigrescens
Calvatia cyathiformis
BASIDIOMYCOTA: CORAL
Ramaria sp.
Scytinopogon angulisporus
Deflexula sprucei
Deflexula subsimplex
Phlebopus sp
MYXOGASTRIA: SLIME MOLDS
Arcyria denudata
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
BASIDIOMYCOTA: NON-AGARIC
Cymatoderma dendriticum
Cymatoderma dendriticum
Hydnopolyporus sp.
Cotylidia aurantiaca
Hymenochaete damaecornis
BASIDIOMYCOTA: AGARICALES – GILLED MUSHROOMS
Pleurotus djamor
Neonothopanus sp
Oudemansiella canari
Macrolepiota colombiana
Lepiota hemisclera
Leucocoprinus birnbaumii
Marasmius haematocephalus
Marasmius berteroi
Marasmius cladophyllus
Marasmiellus volvatus
Marasmiellus sp
Tetrapyrgos nigripes
Collybia nivea
Collybia aurea
Hygrocybe sp
Xeromphalina tenuipes
Trogia cantharelloides
Favoloschia sp
Schizophyllum commune
Psilocybe cubensis
Coprinellus disseminatus
Agaricus sp
Vovariella sp
Polyporus trichloma
Favolus tenuiculus
Lentinus concavus
Lentinus strigosus
Earliella scabrosa
Pycnoporus sanguineus
Lenzites elegans
Amauroderma sprucei
Ganoderma applanatum
Rigidoporus microporus
Common Mushroom and Fungi
Cookeina
Cookeina is a genus of cup fungi in the family Sarcoscyphaceae, members of which may be found in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Species may be found on fallen branches of angiosperms, trunks, and sometimes on fruits. (Source: Wikipedia )
Coprinellus
Coprinellus is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Psathyrellaceae. Accepted 62 species of Coprinellus.
Mushrooms and Fungi from the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.
Come and Enjoy the Diversity of Mushrooms and Fungi on Our trip to Ecuador.