This is an immature specimen. This mushroom species at maturity is bigger with more distinctive pigmentation.
Habitat
The mushrooms were found growing on the soil of the forest floor. The soil looked rich and slightly sandy. There were sword ferns growing in the same area.
They were not growing close to any living 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: 1 solitary or scattered
Color of top surface: 1 white
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Spore length: 8
Spore width: 5
Smell: 2 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: 3 pale yellow or cream
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 3 sticky or slimy when wet
Cap flesh color: 1 white
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 2 irregular tear
Cap cross section: 3 incurved
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 1 bulbous
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: 6 pink or salmon
Stipe surface texture: 8 fibrilose
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
Gills break from cap: No
Gills mottled face: No
Gills waxy feel: No
Gills forked: No
Partial veil type: 5 none
Volva type: 1 sack-like
Volva color: 1 white
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 2 rough
cystidia: Yes
