Palisades Trail, Capilano Park Road, Capilano River Regional Park, North Vancouver
Latitude
49.357248
Longitude
-123.10905
Altitude
86 m
Date
28/10/2017 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
MG953986
Morphological Description
golden-yellow (with shades of light brown) funnel-shaped mushrooms with circular, wavy caps and "false" gills; smell like apricots
Collector
Anita Poon
Number
AP20173
Other Collectors
Lina Lee, Elizabeth Lee, and Xue Yin
Determined by
Lina Lee
Host Substratum
decaying log
Notes
spores elliptical, smooth, and light yellow under the microscope, no cystidia, and unspecialized basidia
Habitat
underside of decaying log near conifers
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
2 funnel
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
other
morphology summary
Material collected: other
Habit: 2 numerous or trooping, but not in clumps
Color of top surface: 4 yellow/gold
Secondary color top surface: 8 tan - light brown
Spore print color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium color when young: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Hymenium color when mature: 2 light gray
Spore length: 7.5
Spore width: 5
Smell: 1 anise, fruity, sweet
Taste: 3 mild/none
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: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 95
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: Yes
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Cap flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 2 irregular tear
Cap cross section: 1 upturned
Cap margin surface: 1 pleated, grooved, streaked, or ribbed(edge)
Cap edge: 2 wavy or lobed
Stipe shape: 2 clavate
Stipe core: 1 solid
Stipe position: 2 off-center
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: 3 pale yellow or cream
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 4 yellow/gold
Stipe secondary color: 5 orange
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 10 smooth
Stipe width: 29
Stipe length: 62
Gill attachment: 3 decurrent
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Gills break from cap: No
Gills deliquescent: No
Gills mottled face: No
Gills secede from stalk: No
Gills waxy feel: No
Gills anastomosing: Yes
Gills forked: Yes
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: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction potassium: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: spores are smooth
cystidia: no cystidia - unspecialized basidium
clamp connections: abundant
