New Record of Macrofungi for the Mycobiota of the Cieszyn Municipality (Polish Western Carpathians) Including New Species to Poland

In this paper, we present the results of mycological research carried out between 2015 and 2018 in the Cieszyn township, in the Silesian Foothills (Outer Western Carpathians). The list of 417 species of macrofungi from the Cieszyn area reported in our previous study, has been expanded further by the addition of 37 taxa found in the current study. Among these, the following deserve special attention: fungi that are new to Poland’s mycobiota (six species: Bryoscyphus dicrani, Discina martinii, Elaphomyces aculeatus, Tuber brumale, T. foetidum, and Russula cerea), taxa subject to legal protection (four species: Disciotis venosa, Grifola frondosa, Mitrophora semilibera, and Sparassis brevipes), as well as fungi that are rare in Poland, included in national or regional red lists, and in the registers of rare and endangered species (24 species including Amanita echinocephala, Arrhenia retiruga, A. spathulata, Catinella olivacea, Elaphomyces maculatus, Hygrophorus discoxanthus, Ophiocordyceps entomorrhiza, Pluteus diettrichii, Tuber aestivum, and T. fulgens). This paper presents the distribution and location of 32 species of fungi along with a short description and illustration of the macro- and micromorphological features of select species and their habitats

First records of Arcyria marginoundulata Nann.-Bremek. & Y. Yamam. (Myxomycetes) in Poland

A new to Poland species of a myxomycete, Arcyria marginoundulata, was found at two distant localities in the southern part of the country. Polish specimens are typical and have all important features characteristic of the species: minute, grey, stipitate sporocarps, calyculus concentrically plicate at margin, spiny capillitium and small spores covered with few irregularly distributed larger warts. The species was found growing on alder female catkins. It seems that this substrate is specific for A. marginoundulata in Europe

Ophiocordyceps stylophora (Ophiocordycipitaceae) in Poland: new localities and host species

Ophiocordyceps stylophora, a rare fungus species in Europe, was first recorded in one locality in Poland in 2011. This paper concerns 33 specimens found between 2011 and 2015 in 23 new localities in five areas. Amongst the described specimens, one was found on the Tenebrionidae beetle, and others grew on Elateridae larvae. For the first time, Tenebrionidae larvae have been observed as hosts of O. stylophora. Five new positions have been located in the southern part of Poland in the area of Oszast and Reberce nature reserves, Babia Góra and Roztocze national parks, and one has been found in the northern part of Poland, in the Elbląg Upland Landscape Park

Combating noisy labels in object detection datasets

The quality of training datasets for deep neural networks is a key factor contributing to the accuracy of resulting models. This is even more important in difficult tasks such as object detection. Dealing with errors in these datasets was in the past limited to accepting that some fraction of examples is incorrect or predicting their confidence and assigning appropriate weights during training. In this work, we propose a different approach. For the first time, we extended the confident learning algorithm to the object detection task. By focusing on finding incorrect labels in the original training datasets, we can eliminate erroneous examples in their root. Suspicious bounding boxes can be re-annotated in order to improve the quality of the dataset itself, thus leading to better models without complicating their already complex architectures. We can effectively point out 99\% of artificially disturbed bounding boxes with FPR below 0.3. We see this method as a promising path to correcting well-known object detection datasets.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to CVPR 2023 Conferenc

New sporocarpic taxa in the phylum Glomeromycota : Sclerocarpum amazonicum gen. et sp. nov. in the family Glomeraceae (Glomerales) and Diversispora sporocarpia sp. nov. in the Diversisporaceae (Diversisporales)

Of the nearly 300 species of the phylum Glomeromycota comprising arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), only 24 were originally described to form glomoid spores in unorganized sporocarps with a peridium and a gleba, in which the spores are distributed randomly. However, the natural (molecular) phylogeny of most of these species remains unknown. We found unorganized sporocarps of two fungi-producing glomoid spores: one in the Amazonian forest in Brazil (tropical forest) and the second in a forest of Poland (temperate forest). The unique spore morphology of the two fungi suggested that they are undescribed species. Subsequent phylogenetic analyses of sequences of the small subunit–internal transcribed spacer–large subunit nrDNA region and the RPB1 gene confirmed this assumption and placed the Brazilian fungus in a separate clade at the rank of genus, very strongly divergent from its sister clade representing the genus Glomus sensu stricto in the family Glomeraceae (order Glomerales). The Polish fungus was accommodated in a sister clade to a clade grouping sequences of Diversispora epigaea, a fungus that also occasionally produces spores in sporocarps, belonging in the Diversisporaceae (Diversisporales). Consequently, the Brazilian fungus was here described as the new genus and new species Sclerocarpum gen. nov. and S. amazonicum sp. nov., respectively. The Polish fungus was described as D. sporocarpia sp. nov. In addition, the supposed reasons for the low representation of sporocarpic species in the Glomeromycota were discussed and the known distribution of sporocarp-producing Glomeromycota was outlined. © 2019, The Author(s)

Macrofungi of the Bieszczady Mountains

The Bieszczady Mts, a mountain range in SE Poland, is a hot spot of fungal richness and diversity in Poland. This paper summarizes 5 years of studies in the Bieszczady Mts, as well as previously published research. A total of 1,377 macromycetes taxa were found, including many (464) which were protected, red-listed, or very rare in Poland. Thirty-eight taxa (nine Ascomycota and 29 Basidiomycota) have been reported in Poland for the first time: Agrocybe gibberosa, Auriporia aurulenta, Bolbitius variicolor, Bulgariella pulla, Chaetosphaerella phaeostroma, Clitocybe subspadicea, Clitopilus passeckerianus, Cortinarius anomalus var. subcaligatus, C. fervidus, C. flexipes var. inolens, C. sylvae-norvegicae, Cudoniella tenuispora, Entoloma bisporigerum, E. olorinum, E. poliopus var. parvisporigerum, E. sericeoides, Galerina caulocystidiata, Gymnopilus josserandii, Hymenoscyphus subferrugineus, Hypholoma olivaceotinctum, Inocybe queletii, Laccaria altaica, Lactarius romagnesii, L. rostratus, Mycena epipterygia var. atroviscosa, M. epipterygia var. candida, M. polygramma f. candida, Octavianina lutea, O. mutabilis, Pachyella violaceonigra, Panaeolus papilionaceus var. capitatocystis, Phaeocollybia jennyae, Psathyrella almerensis, Pyrenopeziza inornata, Scutellinia torrentis, Tricholoma basirubens, Tricholomopsis flammula, and Vibrissea decolorans. For all new taxa, short descriptions based on the collected material have been provided