Capilano River Regional Park, along the Coho Loop.
Latitude
49.355111
Longitude
-123.110444
Altitude
68 m
Date
28/10/2017 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
MG554652
Morphological Description
Feshy toothed mushroom. Smell of dried spices or curry. Cap surface concave, velvety to matted with concentric zones of from dark purple to grey in the center to white on the margins; surface is rough and lined with pits and ridges. Hymenium of tooth-like projections that don’t appear to have any relation to the positions of the pits or ridges. Cap 2 cm in diameter, stipe 0.75 cm tall. Small twigs and leaves were enveloped in the fruiting body
No cystidi.
Collector
Reva Shenwai
Number
135635
Other Collectors
Gavin Gao, Alistair Mukiri, Daniel Bateson
Determined by
Gavin Gao
Host Substratum
Soil
Notes
Habitat
Forest floor, in the soil and duff of Western Hemlock.
Material collected: toothed mushroom
Habit: 3 compact clumps
Color of top surface: 15 black or dark gray
Secondary color top surface: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Spore print color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Spore length: 3.8
Spore width: 3.6
Smell: 6 other
Taste: 3 mild/none
Flesh hardness: 4 very hard, woody
Cap shape when mature: 2 funnel
Cap shape in center: 3 depressed
Cap shape from above: 2 irregular
Cap color with age: 15 black or dark gray
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 20
Cap surface texture: 3 rough, wrinkled, cracked, warts
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: Yes
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: Yes
Cap flesh color: 15 black or dark gray
Cap flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Flesh toughness: 4 very tough - very difficult to tear by hand
Flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Cap cross section: 1 upturned
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 2 wavy or lobed
Stipe shape: 6 taper down
Stipe core: 1 solid
Stipe position: 2 off-center
Stipe flesh hardness: 4 very hard, woody
Stipe flesh toughness: 4 very tough - very difficult to tear by hand
Stipe flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Stipe flesh color: 15 black or dark gray
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 15 black or dark gray
Stipe secondary color: 2 light gray
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 8 fibrilose
Stipe width: 7.5
Stipe length: 7.5
Hymenium stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
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: 15 black or dark gray
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: echinulate
cystidia: None present
clamp connections: None present