When picked, the cap was reddish brown, and gills and stem light orange. Producing white latex from gills. No staining. Cap size varies from 1.5-2.5 cm, and heigh from 3-5cm. The cap was flat and depressed in middle. Gill attachment was decurrent down stem.
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Habit: 1 solitary or scattered
Color of top surface: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Secondary color top surface: 7 red
Spore print color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium color when young: 5 orange
Hymenium color when mature: 5 orange
Spore length: 6
Spore width: 2
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 1 acrid/peppery
Flesh hardness: 1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center: 3 depressed
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 20
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 3 sticky or slimy when wet
Cap flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Flesh toughness: 1 fragile - difficult to handle without damage
Flesh fracture: 4 brittle or crumbly
Cap edge: 2 wavy or lobed
Stipe length: 40
Gill attachment: 3 decurrent
Hymenium stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Latex color: 1 white
Latex stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction Melzer's color: 13 blue
