Cap: Convex shape, 5 cm diameter, brown-orange, hairy scales
Gills: Nearly Free, Brown, Crowded
Stipe: 11 cm long, 1 cm diameter, fibrous, light near cap, blue staining at base, stains red when handled
Ring: No
Cup: No
Spore Print: Brown
Spores: Smooth, Bean-shaped, 10 x 5 microns
Cystidia: Horned cylindrical pleurocystidia present
Possibly psychoactive
Habitat
Fallen western hemlock nurse log in temperate conifer rainforest
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: 2 numerous or trooping, but not in clumps
Color of top surface: 11 dark brown
Secondary color top surface: 8 tan - light brown
Spore print color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Hymenium color when young: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Hymenium color when mature: 11 dark brown
Spore length: 10
Spore width: 5
Smell: 4 unpleasant
Taste: 3 mild/none
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center: 1 raised
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Cap stain color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Cap width: 50
Cap surface texture: 4 hairy, include velvety
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: Yes
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 8 tan - light brown
Cap flesh stain color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Flesh toughness: 3 tough - does not tear easily
Flesh fracture: 2 irregular tear
Cap cross section: 1 upturned
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 5 rooting
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Stipe flesh toughness: 3 tough - does not tear easily
Stipe flesh fracture: 2 irregular tear
Stipe flesh color: 8 tan - light brown
Stipe flesh stain color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Stipe primary color: 8 tan - light brown
Stipe secondary color: 1 white
Stipe stain color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Stipe surface texture: 8 fibrilose
Stipe width: 10
Stipe length: 110
Gill attachment: 5 free
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: No
Gills forked: No
Ring type: 5 none
Partial veil type: 4 membranous
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: 1 bean shaped
Spore ornamentation: N/A
cystidia: Horned pleurocystidia
