Orange mushroom with shiny, slimy cap when wet. The cap is more vibrant than the stipe which is paler in colour. Cap is depressed and arched-uplifted. Gill attachment is decurrent.
Collector
Daisy Liu
Number
DL.2024.10.19.4
Cap shape when mature
2 funnel
Cap shape in center
3 depressed
Cap shape from above
1 circular-even if wavy
color of top surface
5 orange
Secondary color top surface
5 orange
Cap color with age
5 orange
Cap stain color
Cap width
50
Cap surface texture
2 smooth
Cap stickiness
3 sticky or slimy when wet
Cap has concentric zones of color
No
Cap stalk easily part
Cap hygrophanous
No
Cap flesh color
5 orange
Cap flesh stain color
Flesh hardness
2 firm, fleshy
Flesh toughness
2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture
Cap cross section
1 upturned
Cap margin surface
2 smooth
Cap edge
1 smooth
Stipe shape
3 equal
Stipe core
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
Stipe flesh color
5 orange
Stipe flesh stain color
Stipe primary color
5 orange
Stipe secondary color
Stipe stain color
Stipe surface texture
8 fibrilose
Stipe width
8
Stipe length
95
Gill attachment
3 decurrent
Gill collarium
Gill sawtooth edge
Hymenium color when young
3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium color when mature
3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium stain color
Gills break from cap
Gills deliquescent
Gills mottled face
Gills secede from stalk
Gills waxy feel
Gills anastomosing
Gills forked
Ring type
Partial veil type
5 none
Ring location on stalk
Ring number
Ring color
Volva type
Volva color
Habit
1 solitary or scattered
Taste
1 acrid/peppery
Smell
2 mild/none
Spore print color
3 pale yellow or cream
Latex color
1 white
Latex stain color
Reaction ammonia color
Reaction ferrous sulphate color
Reaction Melzer's color
13 blue
Reaction potassium
Spore shape
3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation
Spores are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, ornamented with irregular ridges and scattered warts.
Spore length
8
Spore width
7
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
trama type
cap cuticle type
clamp connections
cystidia
morphology summary
Notes
Mushroom has a milky white latex and a delayed, peppery taste. Spore print is creamy white. Spores are subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, ornamented with irregular ridges and scattered warts, that turn blue-black in reaction with Melzer's reagent.
Spore shape: subglobose to broadly ellipsoid
Average spore length: 8 μm
Average spore wideth: 7 μm
Spore ornamentation: irregular ridges and scattered warts
Spores’ reaction to Melzer’s reagent: Amyloid reaction, ornamentation turns dark blue
Basidia: 4 spored
Average Basidia length: 50 μm
Average Basidia width: 10 μm
Average Pleurocystidia length: 75 μm
Average Pleurocystidia width: 7.5 μm
Average Cheilocystidia length: 37.5 μm
Average Cheilocystidia width: 5 μm