On the right side of Second Canyon Viewpoint Trail approximately 20 metres south of Giant Fir trail, Capilano River Regional Park, District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Latitude
+49° 21' 30.06"
Longitude
-123° 6' 42.61"
Altitude
91m
Date
24/10/2009 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
hm240526
Morphological Description
Collector
Amanda Bradford
Number
ARB091024.08
Other Collectors
N/A
Determined by
Amanda Bradford
Host Substratum
Notes
Family name is abiguous: it is listed as Cortinariaceae (Singer 1951), Strophariaceae (Index Fungorum 2009) and Hymenogastraceae (Matheney 2006); small, golden to rust brown mushroom; pileus conic to convex, umbonate when young; stipe hollow, concolourous with pileus, coated with fibrils below the annulus; veil absent; spore ovate and rugulous with a smooth suprahilar depression, dextrinoid; likely conspecific with Galerina marginata.
Habitat
Within 1m of the trail; scattered on twig litter and Tsuga heterophylla needles; Tsuga heterophylla, Thuja plicata and Alnus rubra as dominant tree species; Plagiomnium spp. moss nearby.
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: 1 solitary or scattered
Color of top surface: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Secondary color top surface: 4 yellow/gold
Spore print color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Hymenium color when young: 4 yellow/gold
Hymenium color when mature: 4 yellow/gold
Spore length: 8.751075
Spore width: 57.5
Smell: 4 unpleasant
Taste: 2 bitter
Flesh hardness: 1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
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: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Cap stain color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Cap width: 622
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: 4 yellow/gold
Cap flesh stain color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
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: 1 pleated, grooved, streaked, or ribbed(edge)
Cap edge: 2 wavy or lobed
Stipe shape: 3 equal
Stipe core: 2 hollow
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: 4 yellow/gold
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Stipe secondary color: 8 tan - light brown
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 8 fibrilose
Stipe width: 12
Stipe length: 1840
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
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: 4 hairy
Partial veil type: 2 fibrilose - hairy
Ring location on stalk: 1 upper stalk
Ring number: 1 single
Ring color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
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: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Reaction potassium: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Spore shape: 1 bean shaped
Spore ornamentation: 2 rough
cystidia: oboclavate
clamp connections: present
cap cuticle type: cellular
trama type: parallel
