spore print in specimen package, spore colour white; specimen cap brown in centre, rose gold edges when fresh
Habitat
Growing on decaying red alder (Alnus rubra) coarse woody debris, white spongy rot, in a stand dominated by red alder with some western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) interspersed.
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
1 conical/bell shape
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Habit: 3 compact clumps
Color of top surface: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Secondary color top surface: 6 pink or salmon
Spore print color: 1 white
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Spore length: 810
Spore width: 56
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 3 mild/none
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 1 conical/bell shape
Cap shape in center: 1 raised
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 16
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 5 moist feel
Cap has concentric zones of color: Yes
Cap stalk easily part: Yes
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 6 pink or salmon
Cap flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 4 brittle or crumbly
Cap cross section: 5 straight
Cap margin surface: 1 pleated, grooved, streaked, or ribbed(edge)
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 3 equal
Stipe core: 2 hollow
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Stipe flesh toughness: 1 fragile - difficult to handle without damage
Stipe flesh fracture: 4 brittle or crumbly
Stipe flesh color: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Stipe secondary color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 9 hairy
Stipe width: 1.5
Stipe length: 42
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
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: No
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: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Latex stain color: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
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: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Reaction potassium: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: none, weakly amyloid in Melzer's
cystidia: ~40 um in length, fig shaped
clamp connections: N/A
cap cuticle type: N/A
trama type: Trama dextrinoid, no particular arrangement
