North Vancouver, Capilano River Regional Park, 50m south of Pipeline trail. Near the area where piplinetrail is perpendicular to Second Canyon Trial.
Latitude
49.3560145
Longitude
-123.1117633
Altitude
70 m
Date
28/10/2023 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
PP550888
Morphological Description
Collector
Bo Yang
Number
BY20231028
Other Collectors
Sung Ik Lee, Justin Chan, Kathy Liu
Determined by
Bo Yang
Host Substratum
Found on the ground growing on decaying wood chips.
Notes
The fungus appeared to be growing out of soil upon discovery but when the fungi is picked the mycelium is entangled in decaying wood chips.
Habitat
on leaves or needles. under mixed hardwoods of beech, birch and maple, or under red pine, spruce.
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
3 convex to plane
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Habit: 1 solitary or scattered
Color of top surface: 8 tan - light brown
Secondary color top surface: 2 light gray
Spore print color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium color when young: 3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium color when mature: 3 pale yellow or cream
Spore length: 6.18
Spore width: 4.65
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 3 mild/none
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center: 1 raised
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 21
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: Yes
Cap flesh color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Cap flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 1 jelly-like
Cap cross section: 3 incurved
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 3 equal
Stipe core: 1 solid
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Stipe flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Stipe flesh color: 2 light gray
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe secondary color: 8 tan - light brown
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 8 fibrilose
Stipe width: 3
Stipe length: 30
Gill attachment: 3 decurrent
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Gills break from cap: No
Gills deliquescent: No
Gills mottled face: No
Gills secede from stalk: No
Gills waxy feel: No
Gills anastomosing: No
Gills forked: Yes
Ring type: 5 none
Partial veil type: 5 none
Ring location on stalk: 5 none
Ring number: 3 none
Ring color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Volva type: 6 none
Volva color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Latex color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Latex stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction ammonia color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction Fe. Sul. color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction Melzer's color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction potassium: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: none
cystidia: none
