Just off the main trail in Capilano River Regional Park, near the fish hatchery, under a large Tsuga heterophylla.In a district of North Vancouver on Capilano Road.
Latitude
N49 21.37
Longitude
W123 06.6
Altitude
<100
Date
26/10/2002 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
AY228355
Morphological Description
Collector
Jared LeBoldus
Number
Jl1
Other Collectors
None
Determined by
Jared LeBoldus
Host Substratum
Dead conifer needles
Notes
The caps of several mushrooms often grow together. Conifer needles are often stuck to the base of the stipe. Most of the gill morphology slots were left empty because this mushroom has spines.
Habitat
Under a large Tsuga heterophylla growing directly on dead conifer needles near a dry stream bed.
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
3 convex to plane
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
toothed mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: toothed mushroom
Habit: 2 numerous or trooping, but not in clumps
Color of top surface: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Secondary color top surface: 2 light gray
Spore print color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Spore length: 3.842
Spore width: 3.338
Smell: 6 other
Taste: 3 mild/none
Flesh hardness: 4 very hard, woody
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center: 3 depressed
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 24
Cap surface texture: 6 other - use only when the others clearly do not fit
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 15 black or dark gray
Cap flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Flesh toughness: 3 tough - does not tear easily
Flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Cap cross section: 1 upturned
Cap margin surface: 1 pleated, grooved, streaked, or ribbed(edge)
Cap edge: 2 wavy or lobed
Stipe shape: 4 pinched
Stipe core: 1 solid
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 4 very hard, woody
Stipe flesh toughness: 4 very tough - very difficult to tear by hand
Stipe flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Stipe flesh color: 11 dark brown
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 11 dark brown
Stipe secondary color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 8 fibrilose
Stipe width: 2
Stipe length: 10
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: 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: 1 bean shaped
Spore ornamentation: 1 smooth
cystidia: none
clamp connections: none
cap cuticle type: n/a
trama type: n/a
