CA, Southern California, 20080902
Madison Heights, fungi.
Ganoderma lucidum []
Updated photo of thing from 20080818. Varnished crust forming.
Ganoderma lucidum []
On Eucalyptus on east side of Euclid one or two houses north of where Fillmore comes in from the west.
On northwest corner of Los Robles and Fillmore, in lawn right by corner curb.
| | GEN | | group of sev medium-sized mushrooms, in sunny lawn, no odor |
| | ST | | grayish to cream, tomentose, cartilaginous, solid, fibrous |
| | CAP | | convex to broadly conic, irreg wavy tattered margin, uplifting at marg in age, shiny smooth, rich medium reddish brown, cuticle a cutis, hyphae of cutis weakly encrusted and not soluble in K |
| | GILL | | off-white, thick, distant, min decurrent, no cheilocystidia, pleurocystidia rounded-mace-like balls rising above basidia, trama parallel |
| | SPORE | | print presumably white or cream, ellip-oblong, min textured, clear, simple |
Collybia seems likeliest, but that genus explicitly does not have pleurocstidia and
does have cheilocystidia. Keys to
Tricholoma in "How to ID to Genus vol III", but those are all too fleshy it seems. Likewise with
Lyophyllum (if it has siderophilous granules which I can't test for). Also I see no clamp connections (hyphae under cutis are quite clearly visible when squashed in K). Note: this could be associated with the redwood on the other side of the sidewalk
I'm pretty sure that's why I've seen
Lepiota cepaestipes in the same location.
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