Smooth, dry, dull-pink convex cap with adnate, thin, cream-coloured gills. Stipe is central, equal and white. Bulb/volva is absent. Brittle, thick flesh with acrid taste. Isolate, solid mushroom.
Collector
Shriya Chamarty
Number
SC_7701
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
6 pink or salmon
Secondary color top surface
6 pink or salmon
Cap color with age
14 purple, violet, or lilac
Cap stain color
Cap width
51
Cap surface texture
2 smooth
Cap stickiness
1 dry
Cap has concentric zones of color
No
Cap stalk easily part
Yes
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
4 brittle or crumbly
Cap cross section
1 upturned
Cap margin surface
2 smooth
Cap edge
1 smooth
Stipe shape
3 equal
Stipe core
1 solid
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
4 brittle or crumbly
Stipe flesh color
1 white
Stipe flesh stain color
Stipe primary color
Stipe secondary color
Stipe stain color
Stipe surface texture
8 fibrilose
Stipe width
15.7
Stipe length
54.1
Gill attachment
2 adnexed
Gill collarium
Gill sawtooth edge
Hymenium color when young
1 white
Hymenium color when mature
3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium stain color
4 yellow/gold
Gills break from cap
Yes
Gills deliquescent
Gills mottled face
Gills secede from stalk
Gills waxy feel
Gills anastomosing
Gills forked
Ring type
Partial veil type
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
4 yellow/gold
Latex color
Latex stain color
Reaction ammonia color
Reaction ferrous sulphate color
Reaction Melzer's color
13 blue
Reaction potassium
Spore shape
3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation
medium warts
Spore length
7.5
Spore width
6.25
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
trama type
cap cuticle type
clamp connections
cystidia
long, pointy
morphology summary
Notes
Isolate growth among moss and tree detritus (leaves and twigs); dull, light pink cap