malacothrix's Identifications

Burned Quercus/Pinus dominant woodland (now shrubland post-burn), just west of Knoxville road near Lake Berryessa
Growing in soil and directly off fine roots in a hole leftover from a burned out root system
Brown pileus with a wavy margin. Lamellae white to cream colored, anastomosing, subdistant to distant, broadly attached to subdecurrent. Stipe short, fibrous, off-center
Smell indistinct

In coast live oak and bay laurel duff. Cap velvety when young, opening into somewhat broad appressed scales. Cap remaining mostly conical. Stipe texture same as cap. Densely matted cobwebby basal tomentum with rhizomorphs extending from the cobwebby material. Gills with pink hue even when young.

BDC-0102-23

Growing in Pyrrhobryum sp. underneath Dicranopteris. Ohia dominant forest.

KOH red on cap surface; UV reactive (especially cap surface); odor indistinct; taste indistinct; cap 1-1.5 cm; height 14 mm.

Notes: Base with white fuzz, rhizomorphic strands attached to the moss. Cap with brown striations. Light blue stipes. Growing in P. spiniforme most likely.