Cap= reddish brown, middle darker, periphery lighter. Cap round, depressed in the middle. Gills light orange and match stem, decurrent. Cap slippery when picked, dried with time after picking. White creamy latex produced from gills. Spores light yellow. When meltzers added, spores had amyloid reaction with spines becoming blue.
Collector
Lucie Radnidge
Number
LR2021OCT23
Other Collectors
Andrea McMinigal, Edward Sun
Determined by
Lucie Radnidge
Host Substratum
wett duff under Hemlock
Notes
Habitat
Mixed forest. Located in wet mossy duff under hemlock
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Habit: 2 numerous or trooping, but not in clumps
Color of top surface: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Spore print color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Spore length: 7
Spore width: 5
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center: 3 depressed
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap width: 20
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 3 sticky or slimy when wet
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Stipe flesh color: 5 orange
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe length: 40
Gill attachment: 3 decurrent
Latex color: 1 white
Reaction Melzer's color: 13 blue
