Smooth, dry, dull-pink convex cap with adnate, thin, cream-coloured gills. Stipe is central, equal and white. Bulb/volva is absent. Brittle, thick flesh with acrid taste. Isolate, solid mushroom.
Collector
Shriya Chamarty
Number
SC_7701
Other Collectors
Fabrizio Chow, Jacob Aragones, Jordanne Lefebvre
Determined by
Shriya Chamarty
Host Substratum
Growing directly in soil among Kindbergia sp.
Notes
Isolate growth among moss and tree detritus (leaves and twigs); dull, light pink cap
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Habit: 1 solitary or scattered
Color of top surface: 6 pink or salmon
Secondary color top surface: 6 pink or salmon
Spore print color: 4 yellow/gold
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 3 pale yellow or cream
Spore length: 7.5
Spore width: 6.25
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 1 acrid/peppery
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center: 3 depressed
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 14 purple, violet, or lilac
Cap width: 51
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: Yes
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 1 white
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 4 brittle or crumbly
Cap cross section: 1 upturned
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
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: 4 brittle or crumbly
Stipe flesh color: 1 white
Stipe surface texture: 8 fibrilose
Stipe width: 15.7
Stipe length: 54.1
Gill attachment: 2 adnexed
Hymenium stain color: 4 yellow/gold
Gills break from cap: Yes
Reaction Melzer's color: 13 blue
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: medium warts
cystidia: long, pointy