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Family
Hygrophoraceae
Accession Number
Genus
Chrysomphalina
Species
aurantiaca
Species Author
(Peck) Redhead
Date
23/10/2021
Morphological Description
Cap Shape: Convex, incurved
Cap Shape in Center: Even, Flat
Colour: Yellowish - Orange, Top is lighter than margins, top of stipe is lighter than base
Surface Features: Moist to waxy, smooth
Cap Margin: Entire, even, regular
Context (Flesh): Moist, thickness approximation: Disc: 0.1 cm and Margin: 0.05 cm
Flesh Texture: soft (not spongy – doesn’t bounce back)
Latex colour: orange
Odor and Taste: Earthy smell and bitter taste
Attachment of Gills: Adnate – Decurrent
Breadth (Hymenium): Broad
Thickness (Hymenium): Tapering
Spacing (Hymenium): Subdistant
Edges (Hymenium): Acute
MISC (Hymenium): Waxy
Location of Stipe: Central
Shape of Stipe Smallest: compressed, Largest: Round, Flexuous
Texture of Stipe: Fibrous and brittle
Stipe Interior: Hollow, Tubular
Spore Shape: Elliptical
Reaction with KOH: No Reaction
Pileus (Cap) Length (cm): 0.2 - 0.5
Pileus (Cap) Width (cm): 0.5 - 1.4
Hymenium width (cm): 0.1 - 0.6
Stipe Length (cm): 1.3 - 2.8
Based Width (cm): 0.3 - 0.5
Total Length (cm): 1.6 - 3.5
Spore Width (µm): 5
Spore Length (µm): 7
Collector
Sneha Gupta
Number
SN 2122
Cap shape when mature
3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center
2 even or flat
Cap shape from above
1 circular-even if wavy
color of top surface
5 orange
Secondary color top surface
4 yellow/gold
Cap color with age
Cap stain color
Cap width
0.5 - 1.4
Cap surface texture
2 smooth
Cap stickiness
5 moist feel
Cap has concentric zones of color
Cap stalk easily part
Cap hygrophanous
Yes
Cap flesh color
5 orange
Cap flesh stain color
Flesh hardness
1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
Flesh toughness
2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture
Cap cross section
Cap margin surface
2 smooth
Cap edge
1 smooth
Stipe shape
3 equal
Stipe core
2 hollow
Stipe position
1 central
Stipe flesh hardness
1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
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
4 yellow/gold
Stipe stain color
Stipe surface texture
8 fibrilose
Stipe width
0.3 - 0.5
Stipe length
1.3 - 2.8
Gill attachment
3 decurrent
Gill collarium
Gill sawtooth edge
Hymenium color when young
Hymenium color when mature
Hymenium stain color
Gills break from cap
Gills deliquescent
Gills mottled face
Gills secede from stalk
Gills waxy feel
Yes
Gills anastomosing
Gills forked
Ring type
Partial veil type
Ring location on stalk
Ring number
Ring color
Volva type
Volva color
Habit
2 numerous or trooping, but not in clumps
Taste
2 bitter
Smell
2 mild/none
Spore print color
1 white
Latex color
5 orange
Latex stain color
Reaction ammonia color
Reaction ferrous sulphate color
Reaction Melzer's color
Reaction potassium
17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore shape
3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation
Spore length
7
Spore width
5
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
trama type
cap cuticle type
clamp connections
cystidia
morphology summary
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