Cap: some fan shaped (from above); approximately 0.5 cm thick at centre; very fine grain
Gills: of unequal length (not all reach stipe; some free); slightly darker than rest of mushroom; average thickness; spacing is close; yellowish when dried
Stipe: slightly pinched at bottom; some flexous; breaks vertically; base almost twice as thick as apex
General: pileus and stipe concolourous; extremely withered upon drying (about half original dimensions); inamyloid; does not change colour upon bruising
Collector
Sean McIsaac
Number
1
Cap shape when mature
3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center
1 raised
Cap shape from above
1 circular-even if wavy
color of top surface
1 white
Secondary color top surface
2 light gray
Cap color with age
1 white
Cap stain color
Cap width
< 5 cm
Cap surface texture
2 smooth
Cap stickiness
1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color
No
Cap stalk easily part
No
Cap hygrophanous
No
Cap flesh color
1 white
Cap flesh stain color
Flesh hardness
2 firm, fleshy
Flesh toughness
2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture
3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Cap cross section
3 incurved
Cap margin surface
2 smooth
Cap edge
2 wavy or lobed
Stipe shape
2 clavate
Stipe core
3 pithy
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
3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Stipe flesh color
1 white
Stipe flesh stain color
Stipe primary color
1 white
Stipe secondary color
2 light gray
Stipe stain color
Stipe surface texture
10 smooth
Stipe width
< 1 cm
Stipe length
60 mm
Gill attachment
1 adnate
Gill collarium
No
Gill sawtooth edge
No
Hymenium color when young
3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium color when mature
3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium stain color
9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Gills break from cap
No
Gills deliquescent
No
Gills mottled face
No
Gills secede from stalk
No
Gills waxy feel
No
Gills anastomosing
No
Gills forked
No
Ring type
5 none
Partial veil type
5 none
Ring location on stalk
5 none
Ring number
3 none
Ring color
17 none - no stains or not applicable
Volva type
6 none
Volva color
17 none - no stains or not applicable
Habit
2 numerous or trooping, but not in clumps
Taste
Smell
2 mild/none
Spore print color
1 white
Latex color
17 none - no stains or not applicable
Latex stain color
Reaction ammonia color
Reaction ferrous sulphate color
Reaction Melzer's color
9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Reaction potassium
Spore shape
3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation
1 smooth
Spore length
4.5-6.0
Spore width
3.0-4.0
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
trama type
slighty irregular to parallel
cap cuticle type
clamp connections
cystidia
None observed
morphology summary
Notes
Specimen originally determined to be Clitocybe cerussata. Because C. dilitata is common on the disturbed trail sides at this site, it seemed likely that the specimen is that species.
Spore print determined spore colour to be white, but print lost.
Submitting the full TW13 sequence to NCBI's BLAST resulted in the nearest match: