Capilano River Regional Park, near Capilano Salmon Hatchery at 4500 Capilano Park Road, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V7R 4L3.
Latitude
N 49° 21’
Longitude
W 123° 6’
Altitude
61 m
Date
24/10/2009 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
hm240522
Morphological Description
Collector
Katherine Lin
Number
KL102412
Other Collectors
Determined by
Katherine Lin
Host Substratum
decaying wood
Notes
Universal veil of orange fibrils present on youngest specimens. The mushroom grows in a group of mix aged. The largest mushroom among them has a height of 3.5cm with the stem at 3cm alone. The width of the cap is 1.5cm. It had no distinctive odor or taste. The surface of the cap has no latex but have a dot of orange at the center and a chestnut brown color that gradually fade to a light orange brown as it lose moisture. The cap has fibrillose ornamentation, with an umbonate shape that gradually flattens at the margin and has a brittle and soft flesh.
Habitat
growing on a moist decaying wood in a habitat surrounded by hemlock and cedar trees
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: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Secondary color top surface: 8 tan - light brown
Spore print color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Spore length: 5.22
Spore width: 3.32
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 3 mild/none
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: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 1.5
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 5 moist feel
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: Yes
Cap hygrophanous: Yes
Cap flesh color: 5 orange
Cap flesh stain color: 5 orange
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Cap cross section: 5 straight
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 3 equal
Stipe core: 2 hollow
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
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: 5 orange
Stipe flesh stain color: 5 orange
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe secondary color: 5 orange
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 10 smooth
Stipe width: 5
Stipe length: 30
Gill attachment: 2 adnexed
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
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: 1 bean shaped
Spore ornamentation: 1 smooth
cystidia: present
