DNA seq does not match other fragilis sequences. Is this a new N. American species? Two collections made; unclear whether AT2 or AT3 was DNA source.
Habitat
On the soil, underneath western hemlocks and Douglas firs, in a coastal forest occupied by Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar and Western Hemlock, having other small plants growing beside them
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
2 funnel
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Habit: 1 solitary or scattered
Color of top surface: 2 light gray
Secondary color top surface: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Spore print color: 1 white
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Spore length: 10
Spore width: 7.5
Smell: 1 anise, fruity, sweet
Taste: 1 acrid/peppery
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 2 funnel
Cap shape in center: 3 depressed
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 2 light gray
Cap stain color: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Cap width: 60
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 3 sticky or slimy when wet
Cap has concentric zones of color: Yes
Cap stalk easily part: Yes
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 1 white
Cap flesh stain color: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Flesh toughness: 1 fragile - difficult to handle without damage
Flesh fracture: 4 brittle or crumbly
Cap cross section: 5 straight
Cap margin surface: 1 pleated, grooved, streaked, or ribbed(edge)
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 2 clavate
Stipe core: 4 chambered
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: 4 brittle or crumbly
Stipe flesh color: 1 white
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe secondary color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe stain color: 6 pink or salmon
Stipe surface texture: 6 tuft-like scales
Stipe width: 16
Stipe length: 50
Gill attachment: 2 adnexed
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 1 white
Gills break from cap: No
Gills deliquescent: No
Gills mottled face: No
Gills secede from stalk: Yes
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: 13 blue
Reaction potassium: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 2 rough
cystidia: pleuro and cheilo
trama type: sphaerocyst
