NC, Appalachians, 20060711
Spivey Gap, AT, many various.
AT from Nolichucky to Spivey Gap. Lots of cool stuff: the Buckleya below is endangered, and a huge variety of cool fungi of every type from corals to boletes and polypores. I apparently missed the Polygalas at the end... probably from obsessing over cool mushrooms.
Flowers
Buckleya distichophylla []
Fruiting widely; on open bluff overlooking Nolichucky River (at and right after that bend where you first achieve the ridge going south on AT).
| | ST | | silvery-greenish, d min puber |
| | BUD | | 1-1.5mm, brown, many scales w spreading tips, min puber |
| | LF | | opp to subopp, appearing to be compound, 42-70x16-22+1-1.5mm, long acute to rounded apic, wedge to trunc base, entire, fairly lt-med green, soft, sl wavy, veins pin 45deg making it only 60-70% to marg before curving and joining others, veins v fine and yellish, midv thick and r bel, min ant scaber all over esp marg and bel veins, lvs pt forward 45deg from stem |
| | INFL | | 1, term, pedicel 1-5mm, min puber |
| | SEP | | 4, free, to 15x3.5mm, lance, spread irreg, min scaber |
| | OV | | 1, inf, 1 chamb, 1 ovule |
| | STYLE | | 3 part, fused bel, min |
| | FR | | 17x7mm, oblance, lt green w scattering of white dots, d min scaber |
Clethra acuminata []
The mums IDed this. Only one genus and species in the area, so assuming they got the right family...
Coreopsis major rigida []
In full fl all over sunny areas and scattered in shadier places.
| | LF | | opp, palm| lflts | | 3, lance, sess or nearly |
sess or nearly, glab or nearly so |
| | PHYL | | 2 series| outer | | 5x1mm, oblong, acute, spreading, green, few min bristles near tip |
| inner | | 6x2.5mm, yellish, ov, d min cil at obtuse tip, appress |
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| | RECEPT | | flat, chaffy, chaff v narr and long (8mm?) |
| | RAY | | 8, v yell, oblance, 30x11mm, entire or nearly |
| | DISC | | many, yell w brown-black corolla bel |
Cyperus strigosus []
In ditch beside road at Nolichucky trailhead of AT.
| | ST | | sharp triangle, spikes w 30 or so spklts spreading 90+deg |
| | INFL | | 11-12 spikes in umbel at top, peduncles 0-100mm, all within 10-20deg of erect, bracts to 300x8mm and V-shaped at least toward base, oblong spikes 40-50x30mm |
| | SPKLT | | 16x1.0x0.6mm, distich, sl lat comp| scales | | v appress, 5-5.5mm, glab, erose obtuse bel to v min mucronate ab |
~4 fls, all? bisex, styles 3-parted, stam 2, ov obov to 1.5mm long, rachilla v winged but not noteably articulate |
It's
really hard to tell this apart from
C. refractus, and it even keys out to it, but the location suggests
C. strigosus strongly.
Rumex obtusifolius []
Silene latifolia []
| | LF | | opp, lance, sess to clasp, pubesc |
| | SEP | | joined, lobes 5, lobes < tube, pubesc, egland, inflated in fr |
| | PET | | white, > sep, split in two, split < half, apps wellp-devel |
| | FR | | 12x10mm, 6 teeth but some teeth split, pubesc, 20 veins, inflated ovoid |
| | SEED | | many, dk, lost them fell out all over my fungi! |
Trying to distinguish
S. latifolia and
S. dichotoma is more difficult than it should be. Theoretically the 6 capsule teeth should fix it as the latter, but the inflated fruit and lack of female parts in the male flower have convinced me that it's the former. The description in
RA&B fits it in every detail... but so does the other species! And the location
right above the road
implies it is exotic.
Lichens
| | GEN | | crust lichen, scrambling over bark and moss and anything else in its way, at base of mossy hardwood |
| | THAL | | med grey-green to olive, coarse granular leprose, doesn't seem v thick, K+ yell, C+ orangish, KC+ oranger than K+ yell |
| | APO | | black, K-, rough shiny, < 0.5mm, clustered and running together, convex often v convex, no discerable layers, lt brown dense radiating tissue surrounding asci, crushes easily under slide cover |
| | SPORE | | colorless, 1 cell, smooth, 8 per ascus, oblong-ellip, 9-13x3-5um |
| | PARA | | unbr, sl thicker at rounded tips |
Biatora could be no info.
Lecidea fails (not green for one).
Lecidoma demissum in wrong place.
Phyllospora parviflora's spores are too small.
Exactly the same as C. monachorum from 20060702, except bigger, growing on rock, and medulla C+ bright red. I can't tell them apart side-by-side. Ack! I was using dead bleach! The C+ reaction was very faint pink before. Now there is absolutely no question these two are chemically distinct.
Cladina rangiferina []
Cladina subtenuis []
Reindeer Lichens in Smokies:
Cladina arbuscula no cortex, br in 3-4, ~combed, axils wide open
Cladina mitis no cortex, br in ~3, diverge, axils wide open?
Cladina rangiferina no cortex, br in 2-3, combed, tips brown, clear pycnidia
Cladina stygia no cortex, br in 2-3, combed, black base, pink pycnidia
Cladina subtenuis no cortex, br in 2, diverge, axils ~closed
Cladonia dimorphoclada cortex, stereome in flattened cords, prostrate
Cladonia uncialis cortex, stereome perfectly smooth, erect
| | GEN | | cladonia, on moist to dry rocky outcrops and mossy banks |
| | THAL | | | squam | | persist, large, curled up, v lt to brownish, v highly and finely div, lacy |
| pod | | tall, br'd sev times, little or no cortex, covered w large to tiny squamules, squam spreading to curling up, no true soredia, axils open but not into flaring cups |
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Who cares what the chemistry is
there are so many ambiguous chemical races that my silly K and C tests don't help at all!
Lobaria pulmonaria []
Particularly abundant isidia, and even an apothecium, but yes, still the same damned thing.
Peltigera "isidiate polydactylon" [] [voucher]
On mossy bank just beyond first major jct with another trail.
| | GEN | | pelt lichen, on mossy bank |
| | THAL | | black (moist) to brownish grey (dry), marg curled up, flat, shiny, smooth, no tom, cracks and margs conspic finely to broadly lobulate (to even squamulose), black bel w elongate conspic white ellip areas, scattered mostly distinct brush-like rhiz |
| | APO | | strongly saddle-shaped, elevated on erect to even curled up fingers, blackish |
Platismatia tuckermannii [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | crumpled foliose lichen, on pine twig |
| | THAL | | v crumpled up, lt grey, not v even color, d sharp ridges and depressions, v d black irreg "crap" all over marg and even a few laminal, some of the "crap" is deformed apothecia, white and naked below, K+ yell, C- |
| | APO | | tiny, red-brown, v thick black irreg lumpy margs, superficial but not constricted bel |
Looks
totally different from the other specimen from
20060620, but it
must be the same.
Mushrooms
Amanita bisporigera []
| | GEN | | med-small slender mushroom, under hardwoods |
| | ST | | 60x3mm, whitish, fibrous-smooth bel ring, min fribrillose-scurfy ab ring, whitish superior ring min and opening upward, ring whitish, small sack-like volva, solid, fragile but not breaking, bends and stays bent, softish |
| | CAP | | 20-22mm, sl convex to flat, lt brownish to pale near marg, v min fibrillose at 30x |
| | FLESH | | 1mm, brownish white, soft, fragile |
| | GILL | | almost free, whitish to faintly brownish, clean, straight, unbr, 2mm long, 2-3 per mm |
| | SPORE | | print white to v faintly yellish, round, colorless, smooth, filled with stuff, conspic knobbed, sticking liquidly, 7.5-8um |
Hmmm. Can't key it out any other way. Looked very carefully but too inept to be sure that there aren't any basidia with more than 2 spores (in fact I found none with even two! but did find one with two "horns" on it). According to
Lincoff this species is supposed to be more slender than the
A. ocreata,
A. virosa, and
A. verna complex
which is important because mine is significantly smaller than the smallest size listed for those.
Amanita hemibapha []
Several beautiful young specimens. Right on trail.
Amanita weird-false-rubescens []
On side of trail.
| | GEN | | large mushroom, under hardwoods, foul odor (it is fairly old though) |
| | ST | | stout and tall, white, brownish near base, v white-brown scurfy, v conspic long thick skirt from v top, marg of skirt crisped and sl tattered but remarkably even, looked for one and didn't find it but didn't want to dig the whole thing up to be sure |
| | CAP | | v large, flat, to sl upturned, white tinging brown, smooth and dry, scattered w grey cottony warts, not striate |
| | FLESH | | white, not bruising or discoloring where it has been chipped or nicked on surface of cap or near bottom of stalk |
| | GILL | | whitish, free, smooth, straight, clean, even, unbr |
Amanita flavoconia []
These were in fine form nearly the entire length of the trail.
Amanita thiersii? []
| | GEN | | large mushroom, under conifers |
| | ST | | snow white, v stout, enlarging to hefty bulb, smooth at top, shaggy scaly (v coarse) bel, no volva? |
| | CAP | | large, conspic large-ragged-scaly, white |
While it
could be
A. muscaria alba, the
A. Lepidella section seems much closer to the mark. Both
Lincoff and
Arora verify that this is entirely plausible.
Arora suggests
A. thiersii because of the shaggy stalk. Who knows. The scales just seem too dense and firmly attached to be
A. muscaria.
Bovista colorata []
Beautiful specimen!
Cantharellus cinnabarinus []
| | GEN | | med-sm mushroom, clustered on ground by trail |
| | ST | | curving and twisting, < 10mm thick, longer, same color and texture as cap |
| | CAP | | few cm, vase, flaring, bright pinkish red-orange, even color, smooth or nearly, marg irreg crisped and wavy |
| | GILL | | forked, shallow but not very, thick, v decur, same color as cap |
Clavulinopsis laeticolor []
| | GEN | | coral fungus, on ground |
| | CAP | | unbr but clustered densely, erect, vivid golden, tips acute and brownish, few mm wide at most |
| | SPORE | | print whitish, colorless, smooth, perfectly round, stick in packed rafts, many min conspic knobbed, 1 cell, 5-5.5um |
Could be
C. fusiformis, but that one lacks the orange-golden hue and is larger.
Arora suggests the latter by saying its spores are round, but
Lincoff says that its, too, can be broadly oval, so this seems a poor character to use.
Coltricia montagnei []
| | GEN | | large mushroom, on ground |
| | CAP | | large, concave, wavy and lobed, zoned, white at edge to yellow to orange-brown to dk red-brown in ctr, tom |
| | GILL | | maze-like, large, pale greyish brownish (paler near edge), edge sl uneven and broken up |
Extremely distinctive. Wish I'd taken a slice
would mae doing K test and checking flesh color/texture much easier!
Craterellus fallax []
Numerous in this one single area.
| | GEN | | med-small mushroom, scattered on soil and bank by trail |
| | ST | | 40x5-15mm, flaring upward, cold brown to blackish w whitish bloom due to loose whitish floccose becoming d snow white tom at suddenly constricted bent base, whole thing thin but tough and rubbery not breaking or splitting |
| | CAP | | 30mm wide, vase, where does cap stop and stalk start?, col-brown tom w min tom warts or scales all over surface, marg thin and wavy and curled out then down, aging black starting w sharp black edge that works its way in |
| | GILL | | v shall weakly broadly wrinkled surface, covered with dusting of white spores visible easily at 30x, fertile surface even greyish lt brown |
| | SPORE | | print whitish, 12.5-14x7.5-9um, colorless, smooth, oblong and a bit bent and irreg, 1 cell, conspic knobbed |
Seems my only two choices are
C. cornucopioides and
C. fallax.
Arora says the spores of the latter are a bit larger, which would fit my specimen better.
Hypoxylon placentiforme []
| | GEN | | ball fungus, on dry hardwood |
| | CAP | | 10-20mm, oblong to roundish, chocolate brown, mostly even color but lter splotch on upper side, v min tom, covered w min black dots from perithecia |
| | FLESH | | solid carbonized pitch black| perithecia | | 0.1-0.2mm, in packed neat row at marg, filled with black goo |
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| | SPORE | | blackish, smooth, oblique ov-ellip, conspic oil drop near one end, 1 cell, sticking together in long strings, ~8x3um| conidia | | brownish covering of ball, clear, < 1um, little dots |
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Darvin pointed me to this annoying website. Frustrating as interactive "keys" are, it did narrow it down to four species in the genus
Hypoxylon:
H. howeianum,
H. placentiforme,
H. fragiforme, and
H. begae (based on spherical shape, large size, and presence on dicot).
H. begae has way too long spores.
H. howeianum and
H. fragiforme are too small (and the latter seems to be quite red).
Fomitopsis cajanderi []
Pretty distinctive color. I can't distinguish it from F. rosea without a sample in hand. (And probably need better literature, too!)
Gomphus floccosus []
| | GEN | | med mushroom, on ground |
| | ST | | short and stout, curved erect, 10mm wide or so, pale brownish purplish w whitish bloom |
| | CAP | | tall, cyl to vase-like, to few cm across by sev cm tall, bright yell and orange aging paler and browner, not smooth |
| | FLESH | | thin, pale (white?) |
| | GILL | | shallow wrinkles, smooth, dull-shiny, white aging tan |
Hydnum imbricatum? []
| | GEN | | large squat mushroom, on ground under hardwood log |
| | ST | | thick and squat, totally covered w spines |
| | CAP | | flat to uplifted a bit, d coarsely conspicly scaly, brownish, scales brown to rather dark and upturned toward center |
| | FLESH | | must be fairly thick, pallid or pale brown |
| | PORE | | min spines d covering entire undersurface and stems, pale brownish |
| | SPORE | | failed to take specimen figuring it would be obvious without oops |
Not as clear as I'd hoped. Genus, at any rate, is clear
at least in the sense
Arora is using. Neither
Arora nor
Lincoff talk about any species that have completely decurrent spines. I'm distinguishing it from the
H. scabrosum group based on the patch of pale flesh I see in my photo where some critter took a bite out of it.
Hygrocybe nitida []
In boggy mossy bank beside trail in wet area.
| | GEN | | small mushroom, in moss |
| | ST | | curving gracefully up, few mm wide, yell, translucent |
| | CAP | | convex w central depression, perfectly even and smooth, shiny (probably slimy), vivid bright pure yellow |
| | FLESH | | v thin, translucent |
| | GILL | | v decur, perfectly straight, wavy-looking, yell, unbr, clean |
Poor observations, but the depressed cap and perfectly straight even deep gills makes a very strong case for
Hygrophoraceae in which it keys out convincingly to this species.
Lactarius "candy cap" []
| | GEN | | med mushroom, under hardwoods |
| | ST | | 50x12-13mm, same color and texture as cap but smoother, granular-brittle like Russulas, solid, white inside, thin whitish liquid oozes from near marg when broken, even width |
| | CAP | | 50mm to rather larger, convex, sl to broadly depressed ctr, yellish-orangish-peach, conspic whitish bloom due to d min whitish fibrils all over top, otherwise smooth and even, color varies only v sl, surface v min broadly rugose, marg curled under |
| | FLESH | | 5-6mm, white, brittle, granular |
| | GILL | | sl decur, < 1 per mm, yellish, 3-4mm long, unbr, clean but sl wavy center |
| | SPORE | | snow white, round, colorless, d but weakly warty, 1 cell, 7-7.5um |
Another possibility is
L. subplinthogalus, but mine definitely does not bruise any color at all, let alone "rosy-salmon to rusty orange". Problem is
Arora claims there is a multitude of mushrooms in this "group", and hardly describes them at all. Best candidate seems to be
L. subserifluus which it keys to
but there's no way to tell.
Laetiporus sulphureus []
| | GEN | | clustered shelf fungus, on rotten log |
| | CAP | | turkey-tail-like, vivid pastel orange-peach, min tom, uneven w soft grooves and ridges etc., yellish at soft-rounded marg |
| | FLESH | | 5mm thick, whitish, fairly tough and not bending v much |
| | PORE | | bright sulfur yell, 3-4 per mm, fuzzy, none in last 1-2mm at marg, 1mm long or less |
| | SPORE | | whitish (yellowish? too faint to tell), colorless, oblong, irreg, depressed, 1 cell, smooth, 4.5-5.5x3-3.5um, sticking liquidly |
Lentaria byssiseda []
| | GEN | | coral fungus, under hardwoods |
| | CAP | | 50mm tall, central trunk 30% up, br'ing above in broad flat many-pronged antlers, tips acute often flattened and erose, whitish to faintly brownish esp near tips, smooth |
| | SPORE | | print white, colorless, bean-shaped, smooth, sticking liquidly in vast quantities, 12.5-15x5-6um |
Can be several species according to
Arora:
Lentaria byssiseda,
Tremellodendropsis tuberosa,
T. pallidum, and
T. candidum. Spores don't help.
T. t. has a well-developed stalk, while my photo shows several br'ing right from base. The br's are definitely somewhat flattened (esp bel), implying one of the other two
T.. But the conspic whitish mat of mycelial threads implies
L. b..
Lincoff gives a little more info: the spores of the
T. are too small, and the photo of
L. b. shows darkened pt'ed tips like mine.
Leotia lubrica []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, on mossy bank |
| | ST | | 30x2-5mm, tapering up, same texture and color as cap, curving erect |
| | CAP | | 10-12mm, v convex, marg curled thickly under, dingy yell to orangish, smooth, slick but not really viscid or slimy |
| | FLESH | | somewhat gelatinous texture |
| | GILL | | none, just smooth surface under cap, same color and texture as cap |
| | SPORE | | white, in a halo around cap (forcefully ejected from upper surface), sticking in banana-bunches, colorless, smooth, banana-shaped, 1 or 4 cell (3 faint septa?), 19-23x5um, beautiful |
Phellinus "poofy white" []
| | GEN | | med-large shelf fungus, on rotten log |
| | CAP | | 80-100mm wide, 20mm thick or so, smooth lt brown above |
| | FLESH | | corky, concentric layers of brown, lter near top, K+ inky black (and smells awful) |
| | PORE | | 5-6 per mm, white surface, not scratching black, holes > walls, walls min scurfy, tubes dk brown w whitish bloom, to 5-6mm long, only see one layer of tubes, white covering extending around broadly rounded marg and overlapping top surface making it look "poofy" or marshmallowy |
| | SPORE | | print whitish, colorless, smooth to wrinkled, ellip to round, irreg, sticking in great big rafts hard to find any separate, 1 cell, 5-7x5-7um |
Corky brown flesh that is K+ black seems most likely
Phellinus.
Ganoderma is definitely not K+? Spores seem smooth (though wrinkled).
Rickenella fibula []
Growing on rotting hardwood log thinly covered w moss. The fuzzy foot is v conspic in this specimen. Finding it on wood made me question its identity, but sure enough, it keys out fairly easily.
Russula aeruginea []
| | GEN | | med-large mushroom, under hardwoods, mild odor, not acrid |
| | CAP | | smooth, dry, convex to flat to sl convex, large, greenish mottled w yellish to rusty splotches |
Lincoff only has this one for the green russulas;
Arora has two others:
R. grisea and
R. parazurea. The latter doesn't seem to have yellowish tones. The other is greyer?
Russula "golden cap and stalk" []
| | GEN | | med mushroom, under hardwoods, odor mild, taste mild, not bruising or v slowly turning dker (brownish-greyish) |
| | ST | | 60x13-17mm, sl flattened, sl taper up, rounded base that appears not to be connected to anything(!), same color and texture as cap, solid granular brittle white inside |
| | CAP | | 60mm, flat to convex w sunken ctr, marg curled under, vivid golden to dker orange-golden in ctr, dull, smooth but w fine golden tom, sl striate in age |
| | FLESH | | whitish to v faintly yellish, 5mm, granular brittle |
| | GILL | | white, abruptly adnexed to free, straight, unbr, clean, 1-2 per mm, 3-4mm long |
| | SPORE | | fairly white, colorless, round, 1 cell, knobbed, min warty to rugose, 4.5-5.5um, sticking irreg |
Neither
Arora nor
Lincoff can shed any light on this strikingly beautiful mushroom. Neither one mentions the bright yellow stalk, esp not combined with whitish gills, mild taste, and not (or barely) bruising).
Russula variata []
| | GEN | | med mushroom, under hardwoods, mild odor, tasteless to sl chlorine-like, not bruising |
| | ST | | 50x12-18, sl comp, smooth white, hollow chambers inside, brittle, rounded at base |
| | CAP | | 50-60mm wide, convex becoming uplifted, shiny blue-grey, lter in ctr and marg, marg striate, tough thin rubbery skin |
| | FLESH | | snow white, 3mm, brittle |
| | GILL | | whitish, ~1 per mm, straight, clean, many br'd near stalk or closer to marg conspicuously so, 5mm long, adnate to sl notched |
| | SPORE | | snow white, colorless, round, warty, knobbed, sticking in thick masses, 4-8um round, v variable size! |
Keys to this no matter what; both
Arora and
Lincoff lead to the same one, but it has no even
hint of green.
Suillus subaureus []
| | GEN | | med-large mushroom, under hardwoods, mild odor |
| | ST | | 50?x10-15mm, flaring abruptly at top, thinnest near top, white to pale yellish w conspic fine reddish-brown dots and striations from some liquid, solid, brittle, fibrous tough sheath |
| | CAP | | to 65mm, convex, smooth, leopard spotted retic pattern of med-dk brown patches over yellish-reddish tan-buff, redder toward marg, yeller toward ctr, matte-shiny |
| | FLESH | | white to pale yellish, 10mm thick, brittle |
| | PORE | | yellish med brown, adnex, 4mm long, 2m per mm |
| | SPORE | | pale tan or beige, ellip, colorless, smooth, min depressed, 1 cell, 6.5-7x3um, sticking irreg |
Keys out convincingly, but no description to verify. (Revisited on 20080415: Have access to "The Boleti of NC", Coker & Beers, 1943, and "The Boletes of Michigan", Smith & Thiers, 1971. Clearly smooth, so not
S. hirtellus as I originally guessed based on
Arora. Keys in Coker & Beers to
S. subaureus. The difference between
S. americanus and
S. subaureus is: a) pores 1-2mm wide in former, 0.5mm wide in latter; b) stem rarely to 10mm wide in former, 10-15mm wide in latter. It is a clear match,)
Suillus luteus []
| | GEN | | med-small mushroom, sev in loose group in soil in cavity under tree trunk by side of trail |
| | ST | | 30x6-7mm, narrower ab, conspic thick spreading ring, ring ~2mm out by 2-3mm thick, curving up, pale tan tom bel ring fading to smooth brown near base, fibrous whitish ab w lots of red-brown liquid droplets spotting it |
| | CAP | | 30mm, convex, tough thin rubbery cortex, smooth brownish?, a bit slimy or tacky in age, skin extends beyond edge and curls under somewhat |
| | FLESH | | 5mm, lt yellish brownish turning dker when exposed, tough and rubbery but soft, doesn't break |
| | PORE | | 5mm long, lt yellish brown to browner inside, adnate, bruises dker brown, 4 per mm, scattered min brown droplets at 30x |
| | SPORE | | pale yellish tan, ellip, smooth, colorless, 1 cell, sticking in packed rafts, 6-7.5x2.5-3um |
Could be one of several according to
Arora grouped under southeastern Slippery Jills. Description of the western species is very close, but too large. He says the ring is very thick on the eastern ones, but he's too vague for that to concern me much. (Revisited on 20080415: "Boleti of NC" unequivocally key it to
S. luteus it's apparently the only thing with a well-developed ring? Thiers and Smith & Thiers also agree, as do a number of websites. Seems pretty clear, all told.)
Strobilomyces floccopus []
| | GEN | | small-med mushroom, on mossy soil in hardwood forest |
| | ST | | v thickly coarsely brownish-grey shaggy like cap, may have had shaggy partial veil but not leaving a ring or skirt distinguishable from the rest of the shag |
| | CAP | | few cm, round-convex, v coarsely shaggy-scaly, white beneath scales, tips brown turning grey to blackish, v distinctive appearance |
Arora alludes to three related species, and says this one is brownish when young while the others are grey to black. Hardly inspires confidence, but genus is a no-brainer. (Revisited on 20080415: Seems there's only two recognized these days, the other,
S. confusus, is "smaller and has small, hard projections instead of loose wooly scales". Couldn't be clearer.)
Suillus pictus []
| | SPORE | | print buff to pale yellish tan, colorless, smooth, narr ellip, depressed, no knob, sticking in rafts, 7-7.5x2.5um |
Could be
S. decipiens, too, I suppose. Are the scales "orangish to dingy ochraceous to pinkish-orange" (instead of "pink to red")? I don't have records of spores for any of the others I've seen (eg.
20051013 and
20060613), so I can't tell if it is significant that these spores are sl too small (by
Lincoff's reckoning).
Paxillus atrotomentosus []
| | GEN | | large mushroom, on buried rotten wood |
| | ST | | lateral, stout, thick, v conspic d covered w dk brown thick tomentum |
| | CAP | | large, convex becoming wavy flat to even upturned a bit, regular becoming wavy and lobed, smooth yellish-brown becoming dry dull brown (from matted v fine tomentum?) |
| | FLESH | | pale yellowish-buff |
| | GILL | | att to sl decur, clean, yellish-brownish, not v close, forked quite a bit or appearing to be so, esp wavy near stalk, becoming darker and dirtier w age |
| | SPORE | | pale yellish beige, colorless, ellip-oblong, smooth, no knob, sticking in rafts and piles, 1 cell, 4.5-5x2.5-3um |
Seems pretty clear, but without a sample in hand to study I hate to be certain.
More photos
Lactarius rufulus-like
Phylloporus rhodoxanthus []
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