Stalked, fuzzy, White ball shaped fungi growing on brown substrate(possibly dung?),
Near sitka spruce/hemlock,
Chaparral, under manzanita.
Cap red-orange, granular, with soft texture. Stipe similar color with more yellow to incarnate tones, with distinct white warts near the base, ending in abrupt clavate bulb.
Growing on oak branchlets in native habitat (unlike typical local T. furfuracea), also with slimy-shiny caps when wet, and with capitate cheilocystidia
Under chamise, near manzanita.
Cap 3–4 cm diameter, shiny purplish brown, with vellipellis. Fleshy staining slightly reddish. Stipe base swollen. Cortina forming persistent annulus consistently near the base of the stipe.
Odor mild, slightly wet dog.
KOH-
Stipe and gills UV+ blue
Rays noticeably thinner and more spider-like than A. hygrometricus in live oak woodland.
Minute grayish-tan hygrophanous coprinelloid with striate cap, densely floccose, with appendiculate margin. Gills adnate.
In soil near burned cottonwoods.
Exciple smooth, whitish; epihymenium pruplish, subhymenium white.
Asci 267–287 x 12.5–15 µm; IKI+ amyloid with distinct ring, and weak reaction on wall, only intense at top. Ascus base like fish tail fin.
Paraphyses simple, cylindrical, 3.3 µm thick, equal; clavate end 4.3 µm thick, not crooked.
Subhymenium textura prismatica.
Ascospores hyaline smooth, biguttulate, [13.6] 14–15.5 [16.8] x [7.5] 8.2–9 [9.5] µm (mean 14.7 x 8.7 µm); Q 1.4–1.8 (mean 1.7); larger than G. violacea s. str. (“12,5-14 (-14,5) × 7,8-8,5 μm”).
Van Vooren N., Dougoud R., Moyne G., Vega M., Carbone M., Perić B. Vol. 13 (5) – 29 September 2021
Tour d’horizon des pézizes violettes (Pezizaceae) présentes en Europe. 3e partie : le genre Geoscypha
WEW019 Was collected by Bitty Roy and Keyyana Blount on Feb 3, 2015 at Big Spires Prairie, which is a restored native prairie near Fern Ridge Reservoir, Lane County, Oregon. The fungus is terrestrial and grass associated; the grass present was Festuca roemeri (native). This prairie had been burned a few months earlier, in the fall of 2014. No trees were nearby.
At base of dead tree, possibly chamise.
KOH+ red, quickly darkening.
UV+ green
Occurring with moss and liverwort
Ascus apical ring euamyloid (IKI+); ascus walls euamyloid and ascogenous contents dextrinoid, causing overall bright purple color.
Exciple in two layers: outer layer textura globulosa; inner layer textura prismatica.
Ascospores hyaline, elliptical, aguttulate, (19.2) 21.3 - 23.7 (24.5) × (12.3) 12.9 - 15.4 (16.6) µm; Q = (1.4) 1.5 - 1.7 (1.8) ; N = 30;
Me = 22.6 × 14.2 µm ; Qe = 1.6. Spore wall 1.5 - 2 µm thick.
In soil under burned cottonwood.
Small hypogeous gasteroid basidiomata, exterior light peach color, interior light yellow, composed of convoluted hymenium. Spores ellipsoid, rugulose, with small hilar appendage, 14–16 x 10.4–11 μm; walls 1.5–2 μm thick; starting light yellow, becoming brown. Basidia 34 x 9.4 μm; mostly 2-spored.
Partially buried in soil, on shaded slope dominated by manzanita, also with Eriodictyon, Prunus, and Ribes, with Quercus cornelius-mulleri about 20 ft away.
With Arctostaphylos.
Anza Borrego
On leaves of laurel sumac
Spores smooth, ellipsoid.
Excipulum texture cubic.
Asci IKI-
Ascospores ellipsoid with reticulate ornamentation.
Bright orange ascos with white hairy margin,
Growing on deadwood,
Near pine,
No UV/odor
Found by Phil Dekat,
Gray inky with long white stem,
Growing in boggy area
Pink crust growing on deadwood near snowmelt and pine/aspen,
Indistinct KOH,
No UV
Creme colored fungi with annulus,
Has reddish brown droplets on stipe,
Growing near redwood/alder,
Indistinct mushroom odor,
UV on gills,
No taste,
Indistinct KOH
Small brown fruitbodies growing on deadwood,
Wavy, sinuate gills,
Dark brown stipe with lighter apex,
Blue UV on gills margin,
Near doug fir/madrone/chinquapin/bay laurel/tan oak/maple/evergreen Huckleberry/salal,
No odor,
Brown KOH,
Bitter taste
Orangey white mushroom growing in soil,
Near sitka spruce,
UV rxn on interior flesh,
Purple KOH,
Potato texture,
Indistinct taste
adults seen mating nearby
Locations approximate. On Azalea Trail.
Black bumpy fungi growing on deadwood next to road,
Near sambucus/alder/sitka spruce,
No UV,
Black KOH
White ascos growing on underside of log,
Near alder/sambucus/sitka spruce,
Mild UV
Blue fungi with white margin and red droplets and teeth,
Growing near sitka spruce,
Play dough odor,
Tastes like it smells,
No UV,
Blue Green KOH
Growing on decaying polypore. Spores almond shaped with longitudinal ridges, clearly angular at face view.
On one of the stairs on a trail at Finca Heimatlos.
The same fruiting body as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/204487111
On Pinus longaeva cones. K brown
Found by Phil Dekat,
Inky caps with darkened center and pruinose stem growing on deadwood in boggy area,
No UV
Maybe? Early in the investigation, but will have to come back to this one. On what looks like an old Russula. Many of these rotting fruitbodies with the same orange mold.
Phialides in whorls and the right shape, spores seem hydrophilic but perhaps not the right shape...not sure how many other molds share these characteristics. Maybe something else in the Nectriaceae?
Found by Phil Dekat,
Small tan capped fungi with white stipe,
Growing inside log next to creek,
Near pine
Hyperparasite;
Hypomyces parasitizing Asterophora lycoperdoides parasitizing rotting russula,
Near sitka spruce,
No UV
Brown fungi with white tomentum,
Growing near pine,
Pink spored,
No UV,
Indistinct odor
Viscid cap, long straight tapering stipe. Fruiting from sand at base of CHSE, Aspen nearby. K light red
Pink fungus parasitizing insect(aphid?),
Found by Phil Dekat on underside of salal
Eating a Chinese red-headed centipede
Found in-situ.
Growing on very wet, decayed wood (tanoak I think) along Zayante Creek
Voucher Collection of 10525 DLL was collected in a conifer forest on 13 November 2021 and basidiomata were scattered in redwood branchlet humus, in Cutten, Humboldt County, California. A complete description of the macroscopic features of fruiting bodies is available.
An ITS sequence was obtained by Sharon Squazzo who determined that this sequence was a 100% match to the sequences of DLL 10520, 10523 (Inat 171868045), 10533 (iNat193540206), MM10 and Buck McAoo (INat 30337093).
Description of the Microscopic Features of 10525dll
Basidiospores 5–6-angled, angles distinct, apex acute, obtuse, or flat, typically single droplet, in profile view subsodiametric to heterodiametric, on the average decidedly heterodiametric, 9–11.5 × 7.0–9.5 μm (xavg = 10.4 ± 0.56 × 8.2 ± 0.51 μm; Q = 1.1–1.4; Qavg =1.27 ± 0.08; n = 89).
Basidia clavate and tapered to a narrow base, a few with granules, separate easily, sides typically smooth, rarely with one or very rarely two indentations, 35.0–52.0 × 7.0–14.0 μm (xavg = 42.2 ± 3.34 × 11.7 ± 1.44 μm; Q = 2.9–5.3; Qavg =3.66 ± 0.53; n = 52); typically 4-sterigmate, rarely 2-sterigmate, sterigma length 1.00–6.39 μm (n = 50).
Gill Edge sterile in cross sections of the lamellae partially sterile but not on the entire lamellae; Hymenium 32.0–51.5 μm (n = 7). Subhymenium composed of tightly entangled hyphae, 8.5–15.0 μm wide (n = 8; Gill Trama 76.0–200.0 μm (n = 6) subbparallel and longitudinally entangled.
Lamellar Trama Hyphae in squash mounts of the gills, long to very long and narrow to broad, 35.0–153.0 × 4.5–20.0 μm (xavg = 81.3 ± 29.98 × 9.8 ± 3.55 μm; Q = 3.6–21.0; Qavg =9.1 ± 4.07; n = 47.
Cheilocystidia more abundant on one end of the lamellar edge, typically protruding 24.0–56.5 μm (n = 14) beyond the hymenium, solitary to scattered in the middle of the gill edge, at times very abundant, easily verifiable in mounts of a single lamellae if the cystidia protrude beyond the hymenium, colorless, thin-walled, aciculate to aculeate, then lanceolate, and most commonly rostrate ventricose with the rostrum narrow or cylindrical, short to very long and often capiculate or cylindrically lanceolate, 48.0–119.0 × 4.5–21.5 μm (xavg = 84.8 ± 16.07 × 12.2 ± 4.09 μm; Q = 2.6–19.5; Qavg =7.83 ± 3.37;n = 38).
Pleurocystidia similar to the cheilocystidia in shape and size47.67–118.73 × 4.43–21.55 μm (x = 84.81 ± 16.07 × 12.22 ± 4.09 μm ; E = 2.64–19.41; Q =7.83 ± 3.37;n = 38)..
Pileipellis in radial sections of the pileus up to 177–400 μm (n = 7). deep in the pileus center, elsewhere 65–128 μm deep; in the pileus center a trichodermium with the terminal 10 cells pigmented, erect and tightly entangled; these terminal cells are semi-erect to somewhat erect near the pileus center and entirely prostrate from the middle to the pileus margin; Pileocystidia cylindrical to narrowly clavate in shape, rarely clavate, 20.0–72.0 × 6. 0–11.5 μm (xavg = 47.1 ± 11.7 × 9.1 ± 1.43 μm; Q = 2.7–8.2; Qavg =5.3 ± 1.37; n = 28).
Subpellis not differentiated from the pileal trama.
Pileal Trama in radial sections of the pileus composed of a colorless layer from the pileipellis to the hymenium; Pileal Tramal Hyphae loosely to tightly entangled and subparallel, individual hyphae long to very long and narrow to broad, 14.0–73.0 × 2.0–13.0 μm (xavg = 36.3 ± 16.5 × 6.4 ± 3.00 μm; Q = 2.4–13.0; Qavg =6.42 ± 2.93; n = 25).
Stipitipellis 21.–58.0 μm (n = 7 )deep.. The stipe apex composed hymenial elements at the stop ½ inch; Caulocystidia similar in shape and form very smaller than the hymenial cystidia.
Stipe Tramal Hyphae composed of subparallel and longitudinally entangled hyphae in longitudinal sections of the stipe; individual hyphae were measured in squash mounts of the stipe trama, 17.5–171.0 × 8.0–26.5 μm (xavg = 92.2 ± 36.60 × 14.5 ± 4.01 μm; Q = 1.11–18.16; Qavg = 6.8 ± 3.36; n = 37).
Clamp connections absent in all tissues.
Pigmentation brown, intracellular and uniform in the pileipellis, colorless in the stipipellis; possibly colorless in the lamellar hyphae; some the stipe tramal hyphae with encrustations that are often difficult to determine. .
Oleiferous Hyphae abundant in the tramas of the pileus, stipe, and lamellae.
Lipoidal Hyphae absent.
Stipe Tramal Hyphae devoid of granules.
Description of the microscopic features of 187515169 (by Dave Largent)
Provisional Name: Nolanea CA11
Basidiospores typically 5–6 angled, rarely 4–angled but not cuboid, angles and hilum distinct to indistinct; apex typically obtuse, rarely acute to flat; internally mostly multigranular, sometimes with a single droplet, rarely with no granules nor droplets, in profile view isodiametric to heterodiametric, on the average subisodiametric; 7.5–9.5 × 6.0–8.5 μm (xavg = 8.4 ± 0.61 × 6.9 ± 0.66 μm; Q = 1.05–1.39; Qavg = 1.22 ± 0.08; n = 42).
Basidia clavate and tapered to a narrow or moderately base, often with granules, in squash mounts typically in small clusters but at times solitary, 28.5–40.5 × 9.0–14.0 μm (xavg = 34.1 ± 2.72 × 11.27 ± 1.22 μm; Q = 2.4–3.9; Qavg = 3.08 ± 0.35; n = 41); 2 or 4 sterigmate; sterigma length 1.5–5.7 μm (n = 51).
Lamellar Tramal Hyphae in squash mounts both ends of the hyphae sometimes tapered to a narrow point, sometimes one end is tapered and other end rounded, at times both ends are rounded, otherwise both rounded, long to very long by narrow to broad, 21.0–153.5 × 3.5–29.5 μm (xavg = 75.5 ± 27.89 × 14.1 ± 5.95 μm; Q = 2.2–15.2; Qavg = 5.96 ± 2.68; n = 50).
Gill edge typically nearly entirely sterile. In Gill Mount of one gill the edge had a solitary Cheilocystidium which could not be verified nor measured; Pleurocystidia absent.
Pileipellis in radial sections 16.0–41.0μm (n = 7) deep along the most of the pileus and composed of a suprapellis of 3–5 periclinally arranged hyphae most which are lighter colored than the brown colored hyphae of the subpellis and darker brown colored hyphae of the pileal tramal. In the suprapellis the hyphae are 4.5–37.0 × 2.5–9. 5 μm (xavg = 22.9 ± 8.67 × 4.4 ± 1.50 μm; Q = 1.4–11.3; Qavg = 5.80 ± 3.07; n = 32) and the pileocystidia are cylindrical to narrowly clavate, have an encrusted pigment on the hyphal walls, and measure 16.5–34.5 × 4.0–8.0 μm (xavg = 25.2 ± 6.09 × 6.6 ± 1.10 μm; Q = 2.3–6.5; Qavg = 3.91 ± 1.18; n = 17). In the subpellis the hyphae in general are broader than those of the suprapellis and measure 22.0–186.5 × 10.0–29.0 μm (xavg = 80.1 ± 51.46 × 20.3 ± 7.21 μm; Q = 1.9–6.9; Qavg = 3.75 ± 1.54; 14); the narrow hyphae in the subpellis may have an encrusted pigment on the outer walls. (note: photos are an effort to explain this paragraph)
Pileal Trama in squash mounts composed of long to broad and entangled hyphae that measure 21.5–101.5 × 5.5–22.5 μm (xavg = 63.0 ± 25.34 × 11.5 ± 4.31 μm; Q = 2.11–9.9; Qavg = 5.85 ± 2.56; n = 15).
Stipitipellis in longitudinal sections of the stipe composed of a layer of hymenial elements at the stipes apex ~ 30 μm deep and further down a cutis of 3–4 colorless hyphae deep (14–1 6 μm), the cells of which measure ~11.5–27.5 × 2.0–2.9 μm; Caulocystidia absent,
Stipe Tramal Hyphae in squash mounts long to very long × narrow to broad, 21.0.–270.o × 3.0–18.5 μm (xavg = 104.8 ± 60.32 × 10.7 ± 3.74 μm; Q = 2.6–38.0; Qavg = 10.57 ± 6.72; n = 47).
Pigmentation intracellular, uniform and brown in the first 5-7 hyphae; faintly encrusted on the walls of some of the hyphae in pileus and stipe tramas, very faintly encrusted on rare number of hyphae in the gill trama.
Pigmentation distinctly encrusted on the walls of some of the hyphae in suprapellis, subpellis and pileus trama, very faintly encrusted on rare number of hyphae in the stipe trama.
Oleiferous hyphae rare in all tramal hyphae.
Lipoidal Granules absent
Granules present and abundant in the basidia.
Comments: 187515169 (Nolanea CA11) can be differentiated by its unusual mostly subisodiametric basidiospores that have 4 (not cuboid),5, or 6 angles, visually have bunch of small spores but with a 1 or 2 larger spores in every one of 12 spores files studied, and internally the spores are mostly multigranular, a few have no contents or have a single droplet and the average measurements are 8.4 x 6.9 μm, its lack of caulocystidia, its pileipellis that is a cutis in which the suprapellis and subpellis that can be differentiated from the Pileal Trama but has encrusting pigment on the walls of the hyphae in all three of these areas.
As in the collection of 182404287 (PNW11) I observed a single Cheilocystidium in the gill edge of a single gill mount but had insufficient material to make gill sections and the existence of abundant basidiospores on the surface of the pileus prevented me getting quality photos of pileipellis and making quality gill sections.
Medium-sized fungi growing on deadwood,
Brown, hairy cap with lighter margin,
Creme colored, free gills,
White apex of stipe with yellowish brown base,
White basal tomentum,
Growing near Doug fir/chinquapin/madrone/tan oak/bay laurel, maple/evergreen Huckleberry/salal,
Strong, White UV rxn all over,
Indistinct odor
Brown crust with light margin,
Growing on deadwood,
Near redwood,
No UV/odor,
Black KOH
Parasitized russula,
Reddish brown medium sized fruitbodies covered in white cobwebby fungus,
Growing near sitka spruce,
Eraser odor,
Tastes like it smells,
Strong UV rxn,
Indistinct KOH
Hard/round/Brown fungus growing on deadwood(big leaf maple) next to trail
Near sitka spruce,
Concentric bands on interior,
No odor/UV,
No KOH; neon green under UV
Medium sized asco on deadwood,
Dark green center with mustard yellow margin,
Growing near tan oak/doug fir/bay laurel/maple/madrone/chinquapin,
Orange UV rxn,
Golden fungi with veiny underside,
Growing near sitka spruce,
Strong UV on gills/stipe,
Mild acrid taste,
Indistinct KOH,
Mild cleaner odor
Brown fungi with pink spores and white basal tomentum,
Growing next to blacktop in disturbed soil,
Near redwood/sitka spruce/Doug fir/big leaf maple,
Yellow UV on gills,
Play dough odor,
Tastes like it smells,
No KOH
Growing under mature, widely spaced Pinus attenuata amongst chaparral. Chocolate to yellowish brown cap with distinct pointed umbo when young, radially fibrillose. Lamellae notched, narrowly attached, yellowish orange to vermillion orange at maturity, KOH+ bloodred. Stipe yellowish beige, silky-looking, KOH+ dark violet. Smells earthy, similar to Stropharia or Psilocybe.
Brown short fungi with reddish yellow pores and blue staining,
Near sitka spruce,
No UV,
Eraser odor,
Orange KOH
Found by Phil Dekat,
Black insect with white fungus
Growing under log,
Near pine
Brown fungus with specks on umbonate and striate cap,
Longitudinal striations on stipe,
White tomentum,
Growing near pine next to creek,
No UV,
Mild cleaner odor,
Tastes like it smells,
Brown KOH
Found by Phil Dekat,
White fungus parasitizing spider,
Growing on the underside of salal
Salal leaf
Host here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171609096
Found by Phil Dekat,
White fungus parasitizing spider,
Growing on underside of salal leaf
Red brown medium sized fruitbodies with white gills/stipe
Growing near sitka spruce/hemlock,
Strong UV on gills,
Orange KOH,
No taste/odor
Light colored,rounded dots of fungi growing on rotting conk,
Near sitka spruce/pine/hemlock,
UV,
Indistinct mushroomy odor
Brown polpores growing on deadwood,
Near Doug fir/redwood,
Strong UV on margin and pores,
Indistinct odor/KOH
Puff balls found on ground near horse stalls at 3000 ft elevation about 3 weeks after the snow melt.
Had pyramid pointed structures on immature specimens.
Whitish puff ball with white stuffing inside. 32mm wide and smaller
Microscopy: 4um globose smooth dextrinoid in Melzer's. Had a bit of a point on one end and large dark spot in center of spore.
White ball shaped fungus growing near pine,
Indistinct mushroom odor; mild chocolate odor when cut,
Green KOH on gleba
Uv blue green on cap and gills
observed and photographed from dried material at the S. M. Tracy Herbarium (TAES) with D. Lewis, K. McCabe, C. ____ & R. Cronce.
perithecia turning violet/purple in KOH.
host more likely a different sp. of Lentinus.
observed and photographed from dried material at the S. M. Tracy Herbarium (TAES) with D. Lewis, K. McCabe, C. ____ & R. Cronce.
Note mandibles clasped around terminus of bryophyte stalk
Microcharacters not observed due to paucity of material (singleton).
Found in fog drip saturated Sequoia sempervirens dominant coastal forest with Pseudotsuga menziesii and Notholithocarpus densiflorus understory MMWD
Growing in Sequoia sempervirens duff
Blue stiped Entolomataceae with a completely inverted cap. Lamellae grayish
Smell indistinct