Under Monterey cypress, taste mildly farinaceous. Little to no odor. From one of the locations listed in the original species description of P. deckeri.
I wasn't able to find the host. At the base of a palm tree.
Mixed conifer/hardwood duff
5 cm tall
Asci with numerous spores
Brown mushrooms with brown gills and white stipe on deadwood,
Red UV on gills,
Growing near alder/redwood/fir,
Indistinct KOH,
No odor
Found in fog drip saturated Sequoia sempervirens dominant coastal forest with Pseudotsuga menziesii and Notholithocarpus densiflorus understory. MMWD
Growing out of the blunt end of an old, broken branch
Beautiful golden brown pileus and lamellae with fibrous beige stipe. Lamellae broadly attached. Pileus finely tomentose. Fibers protruding from stipe base at substrate attachment point
Taste slightly bitter
Red/orange KOH rxn on cap
These observations originate from general foray participants at Mycofest 2023. This morning foray was at Whipple Dam State Park.
Found by Phil Dekat,
Small light finely velvety olive fungi growing on deadwood,
Near tan oak/doug fir/chinquapin/bay laurel/ maple/madrone,
Lighter depressed center and lighter, striate cap margin,
Eraser odor,
White basal tomentum,
Sinuate gills,
No UV
Growing from conifer wood. Likely abco