FL, Keys, 20071229
Buttonwood, mostly mushrooms.
Across the fence. Rained cats and dogs four days ago.





Agaricus []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, solit, in leaf litter near bay |
| | ST | | 30x3mm, narrower bel, creamy white, smooth, hollow, staining faintly rufescent |
| | CAP | | 30mm wide, plane, white context, dk brown fibrils becoming solid in center, narrow sterile marg, no bruise, K? |
| | VEIL | | partial, skirt-like white ring near top of stalk |


Marasmius []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, several scattered, in leaf litter near bay near base of strongbark |
| | ST | | 15-20x1.5mm, curvy, rubbery tough but bending, terete to strongly compressed, solid, cap-colored to whitish, much white cotton at base |
| | CAP | | 5-10mm wide, dome, tawny golden, solid, smooth, dull, sl umbo, marg sl curled under, not striate |
| | GILL | | whitish to sl yellish, att, sl decur, close, shallow |
Try
M. insipidus,
C. strictipes,
C. fusipes.



Cystolepiota petasiformis []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, small clusters scattered, in humus near pigeon plums |
| | ST | | 15-20x1-1.5mm, white, powdery like cap, bending v easily but not breaking, much powdery white mycelia about base binding litter |
| | CAP | | to15mm wide, dome to broad cone, whitsish to brownish, v d powdery like it has a disease, powder brushes off and makes clouds whenever touch it, tip often acute and elongated |
| | VEIL | | partial, leaves powdery v fragile clump near top of stalk, still visible on about half my specimens |
| | GILL | | white, free, close, aging a bit yellowish |
Joshua Birkebak tentatively IDed this one for me.

Marasmius haematocephalus []

Leucoagaricus serenus-group []


Leucoagaricus roseiceps []




Leucoagaricus rubriceps []



Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, in hardwood leaf litter, solit |
| | ST | | 35-45x2-4mm, shiny-silky, whitish to yellowish brownish, even to enlarged below, smooth, fragile, flesh whitish to sl yellowish and v soft |
| | CAP | | 15-20mm wide, plane, not striate, pinkish to grayish or rich reddish brown in center, fibrillose breaking in radial streaks exposing white context, smooth to min roughened |
| | VEIL | | partial, leaves fragile collar-like ring near top of stem |
| | GILL | | free, broad, close, pale yellowish |
Joshua Birkebak is IDing this one for me.


Lepiota theirsii-like []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, in hardwood leaf litter, solit |
| | ST | | 25-30x2.5-4mm, enlarged below, shiny whitish to pale pinkish esp bel, smooth, fibrous, stiff and breaking |
| | CAP | | 15mm, bell to nearly plane, white w scattered pinkish-brown min scales becoming solid in center, low umbo |
| | VEIL | | partial, leaves collar-like ring near top of stem, pinkish-brown on underside |
Joshua Birkebak says it looks identical to
L. theirsii, a California species that grows under cypress, but it seem unlikely this is the same species!














Bolbitius keys-scurfy-plum []
Same place; see 20071210.

Laccaria []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, in hardwood leaf litter, solid |
| | ST | | 40x1mm, perfectly straight, stiff, whitish puber over pale pinkish-lilac, whitish down at base |
| | CAP | | 20-25mm, wide, nearly plane, pale pinkish-lilac, whitish puber, radially ridged/furrowed, sl sunken center |
| | GILL | | distant, thick, pale pinkish-lilac, shallow, att, white right where attaches to stem |



Phellinus rimosus-like []
| | GEN | | avg shelf mushroom, at base of red ironwood (Reynosia septentrionalis) |
| | CAP | | 100mm wide, hoof, rich cin brown velvet at growing margin, black concentric ridges and corky inside, K? |
| | FLESH | | rich cin brown, dry, corky, v tough, perennial |
| | PORE | | cin brown, 6-7 per mm |

Schizophyllum commune []


Pleurotus keys-creamy-spored []
Panellus longinquus []



Chamaesyce mesembrianthemifolia []
Along beack among black mangroves about 50 feet from fence. Some nice big bushes. Don't have to worry about them disappearing from the island now.


Reynosia septentrionalis []


Colubrina elliptica []


Zanthoxylum fagara []
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