"Capilano Regional Park, South of the Capilano Salmon Hatchery, about 10 mins walk on the Coho Loop trail (keeping left)on a slope on the right side of the trail."
Latitude
49° 21’ N
Longitude
123° 6’ W
Altitude
65 m
Date
23/10/2010 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
KC581330
Morphological Description
Collector
Chelsea Gallant
Number
cgallant25
Other Collectors
Prasad Munusamy
Determined by
Chelsea Gallant
Host Substratum
Soil
Notes
Growing in small groups of 3-4 fused mushrooms. No distinguishing smell, taste or color change from bruising. Top of stipe initially lilac tinted, fading to light brown with time. Original id Cortinarius spadicellus. But C. spadicellus has a viscid cap and this collection, like C. variicolor, has a silky cap.
Habitat
Growing in the soil, among leaf litter on a slope, in the vicinity of Western Hemlocks and Western Red Cedars.
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
5 globular
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Habit: 3 compact clumps
Color of top surface: 8 tan - light brown
Secondary color top surface: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Spore print color: 8 tan - light brown
Hymenium color when mature: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Spore length: 12.5
Spore width: 7.5
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 3 mild/none
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 5 globular
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: 46
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 4 oily
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: Yes
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 1 white
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: 3 equal
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 fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Stipe flesh color: 1 white
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 8 tan - light brown
Stipe secondary color: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 8 fibrilose
Stipe width: 11.5
Stipe length: 8090
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Gills break from cap: Yes
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: 1 cobwebby
Ring location on stalk: 5 none
Ring number: 3 none
Ring color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Volva type: 4 indistinct
Volva color: 1 white
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
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 2 rough
cystidia: None
trama type: parallel
