lawrencemmartin's Identifications

Fruiting beneath a line of Juniper trees on the edge of the Southern Olympia Highschool parking lot.
Odor: phenolic.
Harvested a mature specimen and very young button.
Bisected young specimen and applied 3% KOH to context.
KOH Context: vibrant yellow(immediate).
Removed a single mature gill from larger specimen and mounted on glass slide in 3% KOH.
MICROSCOPY:
Spores: elliptical to broadly elliptical, smooth, small.
Basidia: both 4 and 2 sterigmate analyzed.
Cheilocystidia: broadly clavate to clavate.
Gill edge/trama: layers of parallel hyphae.
Dehydrated both harvested specimens and bagged for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation linked below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/550794?q=1oaSB

Small population growing on decomposing wood and in soil in mixed conifer forest. Caps round, cinnamon-buff colored, with incurved margins. Stalk pinkish-cinnamon, tall, with distinctive longitudinal ridges at apex. Mycelium with yellow guttation seen in last picture. Size, color, and early summer fruiting distinguish from C. circinans.

Elevation: 3000'
Temp: Mid 70s

Small population growing in clusters in duff in mixed conifer forest. Purple spore bearing surface, tan-white exterior covered in dirt. Bowl shaped, splitting into 'rays' as it matures, forming distinctive crown shape. Releases spores when blown on.

Elevation: 4500'
Temperature: High 60s