North Vancouver, Capilano Rd, Second Canyon trail, 15 paces away from the picnic area at the Cable Pool Bridge
Latitude
49.35567
Longitude
-123.1103
Altitude
70 m
Date
28/10/2023 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
Morphological Description
Cap features:
Dark grey smooth cap with white stipe mottled in slightly lighter brown. Orange or salmon pink at base of stipe.
Margin entire
Firm or rigid.
Pore surface:
3 pores/mm and are very shallow
White pored surface
Slugs and slug damage found on pore surface
Pore surface dried to dark brown colour in dried specimen
Collector
Justin Chan
Number
JC20231028_05
Other Collectors
Sung Ik Lee, Kathy Liu, Bo Wang
Determined by
Justin Chan
Host Substratum
Growing on moist forest soils 1 m from Tsuga heterophylla
Notes
Comparisons to other herbarium specimens of B. grisea have wider and deeper pores than the pores found in the fresh and dried specimen. Perhaps this specimen was collected before it was fully mature.
Habitat
On flat terrain on moist well-decayed soil, 1 meter away from Tsuga heterophylla
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
5 globular
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
pored mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: pored mushroom
Habit: 3 compact clumps
Color of top surface: 11 dark brown
Secondary color top surface: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore print color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 3 mild/none
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 5 globular
Cap shape in center: 2 even or flat
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 11 dark brown
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 55.25
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 1 white
Cap flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 2 irregular tear
Cap cross section: 3 incurved
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 6 taper down
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 fracture: 2 irregular tear
Stipe flesh color: 1 white
Stipe flesh stain color: 2 light gray
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe secondary color: 5 orange
Stipe stain color: 1 white
Stipe surface texture: 10 smooth
Stipe width: 27
Stipe length: 95
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: Yes
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: 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: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Spore ornamentation: none observed
cystidia: none observed
clamp connections: yes in trama
cap cuticle type: cortical section under microscope shows hyphal swellings
trama type: cystidia absent, trama hyphae hylaine
