BC, Wells Gray, 20080516
WGWI east, fungi, flowers, lichens.
Nice long walk up "Table Mountain Trail"(?) to snowline and back. Got the little white mushroom I saw at the old snowline a few weeks back(!) Plus a few other ascos and basidios.
Fungi
Morchella elata-group []
| | GEN | | large mass of minute fungi binding lodgepole needle litter in trail, not at all associated with moss |
| | CAP | | bright orange, < 1mm, urn-shaped opening up to cup-shaped, scurfy whitish bits outside along marg, v tightly packed, disk same color, surrounded by white mycelium |
| | APO | | orange pigment soluble in water surrounding section possibly from paraphyses, sterile margin of large (up to 40um) round cells| para | | 7mm thick at tip, bent, sl broadened near tips, heavily encrusted or filled with minute orange granules much less than 1um wide, clear bubbles common inside |
| asci | | cyl, ~150-200x12-13um |
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| | SPORE | | 8 per ascus, smooth, fusif, 1 cell, egutulate, ~12-16x6-7um |
Appears to be identical to the other
Octospora leucomela excpt the cups are smaller, and the spores are smaller w no bubbles, and the paraphyses are twice as thick. I'd wonder if it were immature, but there were many dried all fruiting body (masses) nearby, and there are
lots of spores all identical. I can't even say which genus.
Fungi of Switzerland suggests
Coprobia,
Cheilymenia,
Inermisia, but all are wrong for one reason or another: only
Inermisia shows the conspicuous granular-pigmented paraphyses, but it has ornamented spores.
Clitocybe densifolia? [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | small mushroom, in duff near snowline |
| | ST | | 20x4mm, whitish, smooth except faintly fuzzy near base, solid, whitish inside, firm, not breaking when bent |
| | CAP | | convex, 10-15mm, whitish, smooth, shiny |
| | GILL | | shallow, decur, dirty whitish, distant, blunt edge |
| | SPORE | | print white, ellip, simple, 6-7x4-5um, v faintly textured, 4 per basidium |
Found a trial key for related taxa at
www.svims.ca. Keys convincingly due to v shallow (narrow) sl decurrent gills, pure white color, small size, and clustered habit.
Clitocybe albirhiza? []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, single, in dirt by trail near conifers |
| | ST | | 30x4mm, smooth, pale grey-brown, not breaking when bent, conspicuous white rhizomorphs at base |
| | CAP | | rather depressed, 20mm wide, pale grey to sl brownish, smooth, shiny, solid |
| | GILL | | decur, ~2mm wide, avg closeness, pale brownish |
| | SPORE | | print pale whitish? |
Trial key here
www.svims.ca suggests
Clitocybe deceptiva or
Lepista nebularis. Another key of CA
Clitocybes from mykoweb suggests
Clitocybe albirhiza and
C. glacialis. The last has an umbo, not depressed.
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