Capilano River Regional Park near the fish Hatchery
Latitude
N 49° 22' 39"
Longitude
W 123° 6’
Altitude
< 100 m
Date
25/10/2008 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
FJ627025
Morphological Description
Collector
Chelsea Woo
Number
cwoo5
Other Collectors
Karen Leung
Determined by
Chelsea Woo
Host Substratum
Western Hemlock
Notes
Found growing in groups on a coniferous tree heavily covered in moss and surrounded by ferns and other coniferous trees.
Habitat
Growing in groups on the bark of an evergreen coniferous tree (Western Hemlock).
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: 8 tan - light brown
Secondary color top surface: 3 pale yellow or cream
Spore print color: 11 dark brown
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Spore length: 10
Spore width: 5
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 7 other
Flesh hardness: 1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center: 2 even or flat
Cap shape from above: 3 fan or tongue shape
Cap color with age: 8 tan - light brown
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 17
Cap surface texture: 1 scales of any kind
Cap stickiness: 5 moist feel
Cap has concentric zones of color: Yes
Cap hygrophanous: Yes
Cap flesh color: 8 tan - light brown
Cap flesh stain color: 6 pink or salmon
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 flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Gill attachment: 3 decurrent
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 6 pink or salmon
Gills break from cap: Yes
Gills deliquescent: No
Gills mottled face: No
Gills waxy feel: No
Gills anastomosing: No
Gills forked: Yes
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
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 1 smooth
cystidia: cheilocystidia
clamp connections: none
cap cuticle type: gelatious
trama type: subparallel
