The Capilano River Regional Park near the Fish Hatchery, North Vancouver, British Columbia. More specifically found on an abandoned trail off from the main Fir trail.
Latitude
49° 21’N
Longitude
123° 06’W
Altitude
90 m
Date
24/10/2009 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
hm240538
Morphological Description
Collector
Kala Rowley
Number
KR0109
Other Collectors
Nadine Harrison, Keisha Herman
Determined by
Kala Rowley
Host Substratum
humus soil
Notes
Growth habit: single Approx. specimen age: mature Height of entire specimen:35 Length of stem: 30 Width of cap: 23 Height of cap at center: 5 Width of stem at apex: 10 Widest width of stem: 11 Odor: mild/none Taste: mild/none Cap surface color: shades of olivaceous-brown and gray with slightly darker colored margin Cap flesh color: pale yellow, almost white Cap is not hygrophanous and lacks latex Cap surface texture: dry,smooth Cap shape: broadly convex with slight incurve along margin Margin shape: straight, even Cap flesh constistency: fleshy Stem surface color: light yellow almost dingy Stem flesh color: bright to pale yellow,almost white as you move inwards to the center of the stem Stem shape: ventricose, kind of tapered at the base Stem texture: smooth, smooth with minute reddish-brown scales at the top of the stem and lessen as move towards base. Stem consistency: firm, solid Gill color: bright ( sulphur-like) yellow with lighter yellow gill edges Gill attachment/edge shape: adnate/ entire Gill staining/bruising: stain green slightly but over a long period of time (hours) Microscopic gill characters: pleuro-and cheilo-cystidia present in abundance along different areas of the gill ( edges/hymenium layer). 4-sterigmate basidia that produce inamyloid, thick walled, poreless, elliptical spores(5-12 length*2.5-5width) Spore print color: brown sort of olive Volva/veil: both absent Chemical reactions: no change with Meltzer's reagent, KOH on cap surface= dark red color, KOH on cap flesh= slight browning
Habitat
Found on soil surrounded by plant debris, in a forest dominated by western red cedar and 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: 1 solitary or scattered
Color of top surface: 15 black or dark gray
Secondary color top surface: 12 greenish
Spore print color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Hymenium color when young: 4 yellow/gold
Hymenium color when mature: 4 yellow/gold
Spore length: 512
Spore width: 2.55
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: 2 even or flat
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 15 black or dark gray
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 23
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Cap flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Cap cross section: 3 incurved
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 8 ventricate
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 color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 4 yellow/gold
Stipe secondary color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Stipe surface texture: 10 smooth
Stipe width: 11
Stipe length: 30
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 12 greenish
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: 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 Melzer's color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction potassium: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 1 smooth
cystidia: pleuro-and cheilo-cystidia present, ventricose, yellow in fresh specimen
