No odor. Did not taste. P. badia was not growing in abundance, only found a cluster of 5 mushrooms. Flesh was very fragile. Completely stalkless, few rhizoids. Outer hymenium was velvety.
Habitat
Specimen located in a mature Coastal Mountain Hemlock Zone forest, in a very wet depression on forest floor. Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophyla, Psudotsuga menziesii, all nearby but did't seem to be in direct association with P.badia.
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Kathleen Hancock
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
2 funnel
phylum
Ascomycota
material collected
apothecium
morphology summary
Material collected: apothecium
Habit: 3 compact clumps
Color of top surface: 11 dark brown
Hymenium color when young: 11 dark brown
Hymenium color when mature: 11 dark brown
Spore length: 16
Spore width: 10
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 2 funnel
Cap color with age: 11 dark brown
Cap width: 7
Cap surface texture: 4 hairy, include velvety
Cap stickiness: 5 moist feel
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 1 jelly-like
Stipe flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 2 rough
