CA, Southern California, 20080913
Madison Heights, fungi.
Psathyrella candolleana [] [voucher]
Psathyrella [][MISSING PHOTO] [voucher]
| GEN | medium-sized mushroom, solitary, in mulched flower bed |
| ST | 33x3-4mm, sl enlarged toward base, cap-colored, whitish fibrillose esp at top, v faint fibrils from possible partial veil near top |
| CAP | broadly convex, golden brown, lighter toward margins, 30-35mm wide, smooth, not hygrophanous, at least tacky when moist, cuticle maybe a trichoderm |
| VEIL | none, possibly some remnants evidenced by sl ragged margin and few extra fibrils in ring near top of stem |
| GILL | nearly free, light brown, white mottling on sides, white edge, abundant thin-walled bowling-pin shaped cystidia on edge, nothing on face, nothing turning golden in K, trama parallel |
| SPORE | print dk brown perhaps purplish?, smooth, ellip, germ pore, (9.5)10+/-0.25(10)x(4.8)5.2+/-0.2(5.5)um (Q=(1.7)1.8+/-0.1(2.0)) (N=12) |