Cap: slightly decurved and incurved at edge.
Cap color: Decaying salmon brown and tannish-yellow at edge
Gills: Sinnuate; gill spacings were approximately 1mm apart
Gill color: Slightly pinkish tinge when young or fresh quickly fading to white when old or dried.
Whole mushroom color lost when dried.
Stipe: longitudinally and somewhat twisty striate pattern. Thin near the apex and broadening from top to bottom except close to below the surface where stipe is tapering down and radicating
No partial or univeral veil
Habitat
Mushroom fruiting body above ground on conifer needles in open patch unblocked from other plants.Patch approximately 1m x 1m replete with dead bark chips , needle litter and red clay-like humus.
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Daniel Lee
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: 6 pink or salmon
Secondary color top surface: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Spore print color: 1 white
Hymenium color when young: 6 pink or salmon
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Spore length: 3.75
Spore width: 2.5
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 3 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: 8 tan - light brown
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 4
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 5 moist feel
Cap has concentric zones of color: Yes
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: Yes
Cap flesh color: 6 pink or salmon
Cap flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
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: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 6 taper down
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 flesh stain color: 8 tan - light brown
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe secondary color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 7 other scales
Stipe width: 711
Stipe length: 60
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
Gill sawtooth edge: Yes
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: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 2 rough
cystidia: caulocystidia
clamp connections: in all tissues
trama type: interwoven
