Capilano River Regional Park, North Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Latitude
N 49° 21.47'
Longitude
W 123° 06.79'
Altitude
150 m
Date
21/10/2006 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
EF530942
Morphological Description
Collector
Maayan Kreitzman
Number
MKreitz1
Other Collectors
Annabelle Sproule, Alicia Embree
Determined by
Maayan Kreitzman
Host Substratum
Rotten log, among moss
Notes
This fungus is pale yellow-capped and white-fleshed. It has white spores that are about 7 um in diameter, including their spiny fringe. The cap of the mature specimen was 4.5 cm in diameter, and deeply funnel-shaped with an arched margin. The young specimen was button-shaped. The gills were decurrent to the stem, white in the young specimen and at maturity, and were of many different lengths. The central stipe had a dry surface and fragile consistency. It was 1.5 cm thick and 2.5 cm long in the mature specimen. No volva or ring was present, but the cap edge was delicately bearded, more noticeably in the young specimen. The cap was very glutinously slimy. Flesh excreted milk-like fluid when broken which quickly turned neon yellow. Hymenial cross-sections showed basidia with four sterigmata and longer cystidia with narrowed finger-like tips. The fungus was found in a group of three or so on a rotting stump. It smelled and tasted mild and mushroomy.
Habitat
In a temperate conifer forest.
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
2 funnel
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: 3 pale yellow or cream
Secondary color top surface: 1 white
Spore print color: 1 white
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Spore length: 7
Spore width: 7
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 3 mild/none
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 2 funnel
Cap shape in center: 3 depressed
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 3 pale yellow or cream
Cap stain color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Cap width: 4.5
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 3 sticky or slimy when wet
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 1 white
Cap flesh stain color: 1 white
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: 4 veil remnants
Stipe shape: 4 pinched
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: 4 brittle or crumbly
Stipe flesh color: 1 white
Stipe flesh stain color: 8 tan - light brown
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe secondary color: 1 white
Stipe stain color: 8 tan - light brown
Stipe width: 1.5
Stipe length: 25
Gill attachment: 4 subdecurrent
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 1 white
Gills break from cap: Yes
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: 1 cobwebby
Ring location on stalk: 5 none
Ring number: 3 none
Volva type: 6 none
Latex color: 1 white
Latex stain color: 4 yellow/gold
Spore shape: 6 circular
Spore ornamentation: 2 rough
cystidia: long, finger-like with narrowed tips
