white/beige with tanner rim, laterally substipitate, fan-shaped. Slightly spongy texture, overall firm and fibrous, rubbery and rough/bumpy surface. Bitter, vegetative taste and, mild, bitter smell. No latex or staining. Found growing in small clumps on trunk wood near ground and in wood embedded in moss.
Habitat
mixed forest
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
3 convex to plane
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
pored mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: pored mushroom
Habit: 3 compact clumps
Color of top surface: 1 white
Secondary color top surface: 8 tan - light brown
Spore print color: 1 white
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Spore length: 5
Spore width: 2.5
Smell: 4 unpleasant
Taste: 2 bitter
Flesh hardness: 3 hard, potato-like
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 75
Cap surface texture: 3 rough, wrinkled, cracked, warts
Cap stickiness: 1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: 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
Stipe core: 1 solid
Stipe position: 3 lateral
Stipe flesh hardness: 3 hard, potato-like
Stipe flesh toughness: 3 tough - does not tear easily
Stipe flesh color: 1 white
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe width: 10
Stipe length: 20
Hymenium stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore shape: 2 cylindrical
clamp connections: observed
