Found within coniferous forest (predominated by hemlock and red cedar) with understory (salal, ferns, other shrubs)
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
1 conical/bell shape
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Habit: 1 solitary or scattered
Color of top surface: 8 tan - light brown
Secondary color top surface: 2 light gray
Spore print color: 5 orange
Hymenium color when mature: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Spore length: 7.7
Spore width: 5
Smell: 1 anise, fruity, sweet
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 1 conical/bell shape
Cap shape in center: 1 raised
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 15 black or dark gray
Cap width: 12.5
Cap surface texture: 1 scales of any kind
Cap stickiness: 5 moist feel
Cap has concentric zones of color: Yes
Cap stalk easily part: Yes
Cap hygrophanous: Yes
Cap flesh color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Cap cross section: 3 incurved
Cap margin surface: 1 pleated, grooved, streaked, or ribbed(edge)
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 3 equal
Stipe core: 1 solid
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Stipe flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Stipe flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Stipe flesh color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Stipe primary color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Stipe secondary color: 2 light gray
Stipe surface texture: 8 fibrilose
Stipe width: 3.5
Stipe length: 120
Gill attachment: 6 notched
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
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: 5 none
Ring location on stalk: 5 none
Ring number: 3 none
Ring color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Volva type: 4 indistinct
Volva color: 1 white
Latex color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Latex stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction Melzer's color: 7 red
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: verrucose
cystidia: none
clamp connections: none
