Basidiocarp: up to 1 mm wide, cup shaped when moist (first photo), light gray smooth upper surface, white tomentose lower surface which contracts into spheres covering the upper surface in dry conditions (second photo), sessile
Odor: insignificant
Taste: not sampled
Habit: gregarious
Substrate: in brown necrotic zones on the underside of a Gaultheria shallon (salal) leaf
Habitat: mixed conifer/hardwood forest dominated by Pseudotsuga menziesii and Acer macrophyllum
Elevation: 159 m
Basidiospores: amygdaliform, apiculate, avg 11.6 × 9.1 µm
Hairs: cylindrical with blunt apex, granularly encrusted, 4-5.5 µm wide
In Cudoniella2 close to C. clavus? 3-4mm. semi-aquatic, in mountain stream.
last two photos taken after they had dried out a little.
Growing out of moss
Extreme lack of moisture locally. This mushroom found in black muck type soil.
Devils club and fern understory of 125 year old forest.
Really weird population in the bottom lands around Fern Ridge. Normally in the mountains
Last two photos are of asci and ascospores. Sorry for crappy quality - camera went bust.
White columns on yellowing grand fir
Huckleberries with swollen stems nearby
identified by DNA sequencing, this Entoloma appears as a white "hypomyces-like" fuzz on a Suillellus (Boletaceae)
Host mushroom chanterelle, found in the coast range of Oregon. Research and suggestions led to entoloma parasiticum as the most likely candidate.
Spore deposit white. No distinct odor. Cap 1.6 - 2.5 cm across. Stipe 3.5 - 7.5 cm long x 2 - 7 mm thick. Spores (6.4) 6.6 - 7.9 (9.1) x (3.9) 4 - 4.6 (5) µm, Q = (1.5) 1.6 - 1.86 (1.9), N = 25, Me = 7.3 x 4.3 µm. Growing under Picea sitchensis and Alnus.
I think. In sandy soil under shore pine. Some fruiting bodies more dry than others (first two images of fresh pair).
On Juncus seeds??
Lost material for microscopy
In fen, among mosses, often submerged in Sphagnum
Under Abies concolor, Calocedrus decurrens and Pinus ponderosa. Odor spermatic.
Nearest tree is Pinus ponderosa, with Abies concolor not far. No odor.
Cap with prominent umbo, lighter around umbo, yellow-brown, radially fibrillose.
Flesh thin, whitish
Gill notiched, amost free, close to crowded, edges wavy with whitish fringe
Stem 4 X .7 cm, whitish to cream, slightly pruinose at apex, subbulbous, longitudinally fibrillose
Odour faint, almost bleachy
Spores 10 X 6 microns, elliptic inequilateral, smooth, yellow-brown, thick-walled, cystidia fusiform, encrusted.
Found in a large burn pile in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Southern Oregon Cascades.
Elev: 4600 ft.
Mounted in Melzers reagent
Asci measure around 245.9 × 25.5 µm
Found growing on a Pyrrharctia isabella caterpillar.
Yet undescribed species close to Ophiocordyceps ravenelii, on larvae of Polyphylla decemlineata. Growing among dunegrasses