Found growing as an isolated group of three mushrooms
Habitat
Moist understory of Douglas Fir, Hemlock, and Western Red Cedar
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: 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: 11 dark brown
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 3 pale yellow or cream
Spore length: 10
Spore width: 7.5
Smell: 6 other
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: 4 yellow/gold
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 9
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: Yes
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: 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: 6 taper down
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: 1 white
Stipe flesh stain color: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe secondary color: 2 light gray
Stipe stain color: 13 blue
Stipe surface texture: 8 fibrilose
Stipe width: 1.5
Stipe length: 6.7
Gill attachment: 6 notched
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Gills break from cap: Yes
Gills secede from stalk: Yes
Gills waxy feel: Yes
Ring type: 5 none
Partial veil type: 1 cobwebby
Ring location on stalk: 1 upper stalk
Ring number: 3 none
Ring color: 2 light gray
Volva type: 4 indistinct
Latex color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction Melzer's color: 7 red
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
cystidia: pleurocystidia modified as chrysocysitidia
cap cuticle type: cellular (appearing fibrilose)
