Small brown fungi with partial veil remnants,
Growing near redwood/alder,
No taste/KOH
Indistinct odor,
White UV on gills; yellow UV at base of young specimen
Growing on conifer twig in mixed riparian forest. Small white astipitate crepidotoid. Pileus white, soft and slightly fuzzy, inrolled at margins. Lamellae distinctly pink, radially attached to small cottony white pseudostipe.
Scentless grey mycenoid growing on leaf litter in mixed edge-riparian forest. Pileus conical, grey-brown striate. Lamellae whitish, narrowly attached. Stipe long, thin, grey.
Growing in mid elevation mixed conifer forest. Pileus pink to pale yellowish white, broadly campanulate. Lamellae peachy pink, fading to white. Stipe smooth, pinkish at apex, fading to greyish brown at the base, with greyish basal tomentum.
Leptonia sp. Col. #1024
Cap - 11 mm wide, convex, densely squamulose at disc becoming less scumy at margin. Dark
bluish violet, disc nearly black.
Gills - Adnate to marginate, subdistant, shallow. Pale flesh color. Edges entire. Three tiers of
lamellulae.
Stipe - 2 1/2 cm long and 2 mm thick. Glabrous, wiry, dark purple-blue. Hollow, tending to split
longitudinally.
Odor - Mild.
Spore deposit - Unobtainable.
Habitat - Solitary in moss at the Stimpson Reserve on Sept. 24, 2021.
Hypholoma elongatum
Caps - 3/4 - 2 cm wide, convex with barely lobed margins. Margins faintly striate when moist. Disc
caramel becomong paler ochre at margins. Glabrous, lubricous, and hygrophanous, fading when
drying to orange-buff.
Gills - Adnate to adnexed, crowded at first, subdistant in age. Pale mustard color. Edges entire.
Stipe - 5 - 5 1/2 cm long and 2 mm thick. Smooth, wiry, often curved. Hollow, sheeny, equal. Pale
straw color at apex becoming a pallid brick color and then dark tawny at base. Extreme base
dark brown.
Odor - Peculiar.
Taste - Mild.
Spore deposit - Unobtainable.
Habitat - Gregarious in duff under hemlock at the Stimpson Reserve on Oct. 14, 2021.
Conocybe sp. Col. #1020
Caps - 3/4 - 3 1/2 cm wide, plano-convex with finely striate margins at first. Glabrous, lubricous,
slippery when moist. Ochre fading hygrophanously from disc first to a pale straw color.
Veil - Buff appendiculate velar material hanging from margins.
Gills - Adnate, subventricose in age. Pale yellowish straw color becoming more ochre in age. Also
more distant in age. Edges entire. Dried gills are rusty.
Stipe - 2 1/2 - 5 1/2 cm long and 2-3 mm thick. Silvery white and often curved. Hollow. Equal until
expanding slightly at base.
Odor - Peculiar.
Taste - Slightly metallic.
Spores - Unobtainable.
Habitat - Gregarious in leaf litter near hardwoods. Stimpson Reserve on Sept. 24, 2021.
Spores - Ellipsoid, thick-walled (dark brown in KOH), 9-11 (11.7) x 4.2-5.4 (6.2) microns. Q = 2.00.
No germ pore.
Basidia - Clavate, 4-spored, 19-28 x 7.2-9 microns.
Cheilocystidia - Fusiform with long necks or vesiculose with short necks.
Gill Trama - Of parallel hyphae 3.7-12 microns wide.
Pileipellis - A pallisadoderm, apices a bit squared off or sphaeropedunculate at 12-15 microns wide. Pedicellate.
Pileal Trama - Of parallel hyphae 5-10 microns wide.
Clamps - On the caulocystidia.
Stipitipellis - Of vertical hyphae 4-9 microns wide.
Caulocystidia - Of branched, knobbed, and contorted hyphae 7-14 microns wide. Multi septate. A few
with clavate apices.
Comment: Close to Conocybe appendiculata, but that species has subcapitate cheilos and spores 6.5-8.5 x 4-5 microns.
In leaf (big-leaf maple & red alder) and scale (red cedar) litter; Very delicate and long stiped; spores (photo 2) 9.5-12x6-7µm; cheilocystidia (photos 3 & 4) with very long excresences; no pleurocystidia seen; no odor
??? No odor. Extremely fragile and watery. 2nd 2 photos Cheilocystidia clavate roughened. Very few pleurocystidia. 4th photo - Spores 11.3x6.0µm (11 spores).
Ramaria concolor form concolor - Photo F-213
Frb. – 12 cm tall by 9 cm wide.
Branches – Dull ochre bruising vinaceous. More or less vertically oriented and tightly packed. Some
white tomentum at base. Very stringy.
Tips – Ochre to mostly vinaceous.
Odor – Strongly funky-musty.
Taste – Astringent.
Spores – Ochre. Ellipsoid, warty. 8-10.2 x 4-5 microns.
Basidia - 4-spored, slenderly clavate, 40-41 x 6-7 microns.
Clamps - Present.
Habitat – Colonies under conifers in moss at Stimpson Reserve on September 9, 2014.
Growing in cluster on moist wood. Odor slightly metallic.
Spores 10.1 x 5.3 µm (10 spore ave); 9.5-11.1x4.8-5.5 (photo 5)
Cheilocystidia clavate with numerous, fine, evenly spaced excresences (photos 3&4). Pleurocystidia present and similar but relatively rare except for near the gill edge.
This is a guess for now. Will sequence.
Growing from Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla) wood.
KOH reddish-brown; UV reactive (gills orange); odor indistinct; taste mildly bitter; cap 4 cm; height 4 cm.
Notes: Cap with patches of depressed fibrils. Gills with darker spots. Whitish ring of color on stipe near cap.
Odor: None. Size: pileus 3mm-7mm, stipes 3mm-1.8cm. KOH: None. UV: Gills yellow.
BDC-0109-23
Growing on wood. Falcataria/Kukui in the area.
KOH n/a; UV non-reactive; taste n/a; odor indistinct; cap 1mm; height 16mm
Growing in mixed lowland riparian rainforest. Irregularly shaped gasteroids, with a thin beige presidium that cracks in age. Gleba of densely packed thin grey-green fertile tissue.
Growing on mixed conifer leaf litter in riparian forest. Pileus light tan, ornamented in cinamon-brown dusty looking scales, colored like a snickerdoodle; often dimpled in the center and irregularly wavy at margins in typical omphalinoid fashion. Gills wavy, some shallowly crossveined, deeply decurrent. Stipe whitish at apex, fading to pinkish brown at the base.
Growing on very well-rotted conifer wood and chinquapin leaves in mixed riparian forest. Pileus white, fuzzy, resupinate. Lamellae veiny, attached radially to central point.
Growing on a thin mossy layer of ultramafic clay soil encrusted on rocks in a creek. Fruiting only in this strange habitat despite an abundance of dead wood in the area. Pileus white to light tan, dome-shaped to conical, dusted with whitish translucent granules, striate and slightly pleated. Lamellae tan to grey, free. Stipe whitish, coated in granules, brittle.