Cap: some fan shaped (from above); approximately 0.5 cm thick at centre; very fine grain
Gills: of unequal length (not all reach stipe; some free); slightly darker than rest of mushroom; average thickness; spacing is close; yellowish when dried
Stipe: slightly pinched at bottom; some flexous; breaks vertically; base almost twice as thick as apex
General: pileus and stipe concolourous; extremely withered upon drying (about half original dimensions); inamyloid; does not change colour upon bruising
Collector
Sean McIsaac
Number
1
Other Collectors
None
Determined by
Sean McIsaac
Host Substratum
Notes
Specimen originally determined to be Clitocybe cerussata. Because C. dilitata is common on the disturbed trail sides at this site, it seemed likely that the specimen is that species.
Spore print determined spore colour to be white, but print lost.
Submitting the full TW13 sequence to NCBI's BLAST resulted in the nearest match:
This was the only representative of any suspected genera to appear.
Habitat
Side of trail. Mix of dirt/woodchip/gravel. Bed of moss. Underneath conifers.
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: 2 numerous or trooping, but not in clumps
Color of top surface: 1 white
Secondary color top surface: 2 light gray
Spore print color: 1 white
Hymenium color when young: 3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium color when mature: 3 pale yellow or cream
Spore length: 4.56
Spore width: 3.04
Smell: 2 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: 1 white
Cap width: 5
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
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Cap cross section: 3 incurved
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 2 wavy or lobed
Stipe shape: 2 clavate
Stipe core: 3 pithy
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: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Stipe flesh color: 1 white
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe secondary color: 2 light gray
Stipe surface texture: 10 smooth
Stipe width: 1
Stipe length: 60
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
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: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction Melzer's color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 1 smooth
cystidia: None observed
trama type: slighty irregular to parallel
