Cap: 4-10 cm in diameter, broad, rounded becoming convex to plane. Its surface is slightly viscid when moist. The color is creamy and golden yellow, slightly darker at the center. The whitish universal veil entirely covers the youngest mushrooms. On mature mushrooms, the universal veil leaves whitish spots or scales, which may wash or wear off with age.
Gills: free, crowded, narrow and white
Stalk: 5-13 cm, smooth about the ring and scaly below. It is 0.5-2 cm in diameter at the base, narrowing slightly towards the cap. The stalk is white when fresh, but yellowish tinge when dry.
Veil: The universal veil that causes the whitish spots on the cap are cottony, white and also forms a collar-like volva at the top of the basal bulb. A partial veil is membranous and white forming a fragile, skirt-like ring on the stalk.
Spore Print: N/A
Microscopic Characteristics:
Spore shape: N/A
Collector
Alice Kam
Number
AK
Other Collectors
Determined by
Alice Kam
Host Substratum
Notes
Habitat
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: 4 yellow/gold
Spore print color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Smell: 6 other
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: 4 yellow/gold
Cap stain color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Cap width: 410
Cap surface texture: 1 scales of any kind
Cap stickiness: 5 moist feel
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: 2 recurved
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: 1 white
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe secondary color: 4 yellow/gold
Stipe surface texture: 10 smooth
Stipe width: .52
Stipe length: 50130
Gill attachment: 5 free
Hymenium stain color: 1 white
Gills deliquescent: No
Gills mottled face: No
Gills waxy feel: No
Ring type: 1 skirt-like
Partial veil type: 4 membranous
Ring number: 1 single
Ring color: 1 white
Volva type: 3 scaly
Volva color: 1 white
