Small mushroom with a distinctive salmon-pink annulus and a dry, silky texture.
Habitat
A mossy section of forest floor with a scattering of conifer needles at the base of a red cedar tree.
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
1 conical/bell shape
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Habit: 1 solitary or scattered
Color of top surface: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Secondary color top surface: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Spore print color: 8 tan - light brown
Hymenium color when young: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Hymenium color when mature: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Spore length: 7
Spore width: 5
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 3 mild/none
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 1 conical/bell shape
Cap shape in center: 1 raised
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 11 dark brown
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 2
Cap surface texture: 4 hairy, include velvety
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 8 tan - light brown
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: 1 upturned
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 4 veil remnants
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: 2 irregular tear
Stipe flesh color: 8 tan - light brown
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 6 pink or salmon
Stipe secondary color: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 9 hairy
Stipe width: 3
Stipe length: 40
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
Partial veil type: 2 fibrilose - hairy
Ring location on stalk: 2 middle stalk
Ring number: 1 single
Ring color: 6 pink or salmon
Volva type: 6 none
Reaction Melzer's color: 7 red
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 1 smooth
