Second Canyon viewpoint Trail, Capilano Regional Park, North Vancouver.
Latitude
49.355
Longitude
-123.110
Altitude
Date
20/10/2018 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
Morphological Description
Collector
Mei Yin
Number
01
Other Collectors
Determined by
Mei Yin & Mary Berbee
Host Substratum
Dead leaves by dead hemlock, under sword fern.
Notes
The cap is golden orange, and the stem has a flaring ring. Its' taste is plain; latex is none; no staining, smell like grocery mushroom.Gills are a pale golden colour, turning slightly darker with age. Gills are from free to short decurrent. Spore are fusiform-navicular, rough, light brown, 5 micrometer x 10 micrometer, cystidia is absent. Clamp is present.
Habitat
Soil, dead leaves by dead hemlock, slope tilted at around 45 degree angle, under sword fern, beside the trial.
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
Secondary color top surface: 3 pale yellow or cream
Spore print color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Hymenium color when young: 3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium color when mature: 5 orange
Spore length: 10
Spore width: 5
Smell: 2 mild/none
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: 4 yellow/gold
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 25100
Cap surface texture: 6 other - use only when the others clearly do not fit
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 1 white
Cap flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Flesh toughness: 3 tough - does not tear easily
Flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Cap cross section: 3 incurved
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 4 veil remnants
Stipe shape: 2 clavate
Stipe core: 1 solid
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Stipe flesh toughness: 3 tough - does not tear easily
Stipe flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Stipe flesh color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Stipe secondary color: 1 white
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 5 powdery granules
Stipe width: 1520
Stipe length: 10150
Gill attachment: 5 free
Gill collarium: Yes
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: 1 skirt-like
Partial veil type: 4 membranous
Ring location on stalk: 1 upper stalk
Ring number: 1 single
Ring color: 4 yellow/gold
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: none or warty
cystidia: absent
clamp connections: present
cap cuticle type: clavate, pyriform, brown pigment
trama type: hymnophoral
