North Vancouver, Capilano River Regional Park, Coho Trail, ~ 180 m from Cable Pool Bridge on Eastern trail;
Latitude
49.354148
Longitude
-123.110465
Altitude
~ 81 m
Date
23/10/2021 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
Morphological Description
Collector
S. Blum
Number
SMB2022a
Other Collectors
A. Varghes, S. Peng
Determined by
S. Blum
Host Substratum
Humus;
Notes
In all, seven specimens were found ranging in size: 4-18mm cap diameter, 1-13mm stipe length, 0.25-1mm stipe thickness (with one specimen having a sessile stem). Stipe position varied from central, eccentric, to sessile/absent. Other characteristics were consistent: umbilicate to slightly infundibuliform when older with arched, split, and undulating margins; dusty, dull, and spongy cap a pink-brown colour that became darker when damaged and tanner when dried; gills are uncinate and ventricose, with average thickness and subdistant spacing; edges are acute and veined with waxy, dusty ridges consistent with cap colour; stems are flexuous and longitudinally striate with silvery-shiny surface near the base; very fragile and chalky; no taste, slightly anise, fruity smell reminiscent of seawater; hyphae white when young; white, subglobose (with occasional oblong) spores, 10-17µm (including spines), highly ornamented with 2.5-4µm long spines; basidia are two-spored and 30-37.5µm long, 7.5-10µm wide with few cystidia.
Habitat
In humus soil in majority conifer, mixed forest; under Psuedotsuga menziesii, Cornus nuttallii, and Alnus rubra near fallen Alnus rubra branches and fallen, decaying Pseudotsuga menziesii; Found with unidentifiable root material attached to stem;
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
3 convex to plane
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
