Orange to brownish colored caps with s slight convex in the center, fresh specimens are moist and produce a viscous fluid called latex from the gills. The stalk is quite long and also orange-colored, and the spores produced are elliptical with amyloid ridges and warts.
Collector
Hau-Li Fan
Number
18
Cap shape when mature
3 convex to plane
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
10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Cap color with age
10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Cap stain color
2 light gray
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
No
Cap hygrophanous
Yes
Cap flesh color
5 orange
Cap flesh stain color
1 white
Flesh hardness
2 firm, fleshy
Flesh toughness
1 fragile - difficult to handle without damage
Flesh fracture
2 irregular tear
Cap cross section
3 incurved
Cap margin surface
2 smooth
Cap edge
1 smooth
Stipe shape
3 equal
Stipe core
2 hollow
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
3 pale yellow or cream
Stipe flesh stain color
1 white
Stipe primary color
3 pale yellow or cream
Stipe secondary color
5 orange
Stipe stain color
1 white
Stipe surface texture
10 smooth
Stipe width
10
Stipe length
50
Gill attachment
3 decurrent
Gill collarium
No
Gill sawtooth edge
No
Hymenium color when young
1 white
Hymenium color when mature
4 yellow/gold
Hymenium stain color
1 white
Gills break from cap
No
Gills deliquescent
No
Gills mottled face
No
Gills secede from stalk
Yes
Gills waxy feel
Yes
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
2 bitter
Smell
2 mild/none
Spore print color
1 white
Latex color
1 white
Latex stain color
2 light gray
Reaction ammonia color
17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction ferrous sulphate color
17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction Melzer's color
15 black or dark gray
Reaction potassium
17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore shape
3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation
amyloid ridges and warts
Spore length
7
Spore width
6
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
trama type
NA
cap cuticle type
NA
clamp connections
none present
cystidia
present
morphology summary
Notes
Growing on the side of a walking/biking trail in the soil near some giant leaves. Growing in a group of 5 individual mushrooms of the same species and of different sizes.