ITS matches holotype of I. ceskae (GenBank NR160565.1). Voucher collection RHM-20-20.
White pleurotoid fungi,
Growing on deadwood next to trail,
UV,
No KOH,
Indistinct odor,
Near alder/redwood
Growing on cypress duff. Pileus widely domed, bright white with very slight striations, margin slightly ruffled. Lamellae white, very widely spaced, widely attached. Stipe thin, white, with no basal hairs.
Crassisporium funariophilum –
Caps – 1 ¼ - 2 cm wide, convex to plane, glabrous, dark tawny becoming slightly paler at margins. Margins faintly striate when moist. Not hygrophanous. Context tawny.
Gills – Rounded-adnexed, ochre-tan, subdistant, thickish. Edges entire. Three tiers of lamellulae.
Stipe – 2 cm. long and 1 ½ mm thick. Smooth, wiry, dark tawny. Curved, equal. Base with a ball of dirt.
Odor & Taste – Mild.
Spores - Rusty, ovate, thick walled, 10-11 x 7.8-8 microns
Habitat – Three scattered in moss under conifers on side of trail at Stimson Nature Reserve on May 3,
thick walled, amyloid, spiny globose spores about 7microns. In swampy area on muck. Very tough and fibrous compared to e.g mycena, with prominent pointy umbo on mature specimens
M3471
On wood debris under mix conifers. These are small, about 4 cms.
Spore print light brown.
Spores oval or elliptic, (5.5 - 6.7) x (3.8 - 4.2) ; Q=1.50
Very long and tall, no purple, growing in wet area with sedges and skunk cabbage
Laccaria....??
In a fen, probably growing amongst pictured Aulacomnium
NS3134
Under willow, with alder in area. cap 7-18 mm, stipe 15-26 mm long, 2-3.5 mm thick, Violet basal mycelium, odor fishy.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/63110710
Fungee V
Gymnopilus "sp-IN03"
Going with this for now because there are other viable options.
DNA ITS
Agaricineae 1. Hemlock wood chips. Average spore size 8.5 x 5 microns.
M3479
A small Gymnopilus from the G. sapineus group . It appears abundant and common.
The caps on these are smooth, yellow-orange, and are small. Mostly at ground level on conifer material, douglas fir and similar.
Cap 3.5 cms., yellow/orange/red/brown. Smooth, and convex.
Gills, adnate, crowded to close, fairly narrow, yellow to orange/brown.
Flesh yellow, taste bitter.
Spores verrucose, reddish, elliptical, oval, and almond. (7.0-9.0) x (5.0-5.7)
Pleurocystidia capitate about 30 x 7;
basidia 24 x 6.5.
VOUCHER # 73198
DATE: 20 NOV 2020
STATE: WA
COUNTY: KITSAP
FORAY ID: South Sound Fungal Diversity Project.
SITE NAME: Newberry Hill Heritage Park, near Silverdale
iNat #: 69187289
NEARBY FLORA:
Conifer: Douglas Fir, Hemlock.
Deciduous: Vine Maple, Red Huckleberry.
Evergreen: Sword Fern, Blue/Black Huckleberry.
SUBSTRATE: Twigs, Dense Humus Soil, Needle Duff, Moss.
HABIT: Single.
LIGHT EXPOSURE: Shade (80% of day)to Partial Shade
MOISTURE: Wet
AMBIENT TEMP: 45 Degrees F
SOIL TEMP: 40 Degrees F
ECOSYSTEM: 2nd-Growth Forest.
ELEVATION: 460 Ft/140 Meters
LAY OF THE LAND: 40-degree Slope
REFERENCES:
Mushroom Matchmaker App (I. Gibson, M. Beug, D. Parker, D. Miller, N. Siegel, B. Kendrick);
Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast (Siegel & Schwarz), pg 38;
Pictorial Key to Pacific NW Mushrooms (Danny Miller)
Mushroom Expert Website (Michael Kuo)
DETAILED PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION, from Mushroom Matchmaker app:
LATIN NAME(S)Mushroom Matchmaker App (I. Gibson, M. Beug, D. Parker, D. Miller, N. Siegel, B. Kendrick); Amanita augusta Bojantchev & R.M. Davis North American Fungi 8(5):2. 2013; Amanita franchetii sensu auct. mult. (misapplied name); Amanita aspera sensu auct. mult. (misapplied name)
ENGLISH NAME(S): yellow-veiled Amanita, western yellow-veil
NOTES: The most distinctive features are the powdery yellow universal veil and yellow partial veil, which forms yellowish to grayish white warts on cap and a yellow or partly yellow ring. This species has been known under the misapplied name Amanita franchetii. It is common in the Pacific Northwest.
RANGE: Collections were examined from CA, OR, WA, and AK (Bojantchev). It is reported from ID by Andrew Parker, pers. comm., and is frequent on foray lists from BC (in both cases as Amanita franchetii). Kroeger(5) reported it from Haida Gwaii in BC.
CAP: 3-15cm across, hemispheric to convex becoming flat-convex to flat-concave, "margin incurved to straight"; dark brown to brown to yellow-brown, sometimes yellow to grayish yellow when old, "typically paler towards the margin"; "occasionally ribbed striate near the margin", over the cap surface "the universal veil forming rows of concentric warts (finer towards the edge)", yellow but fading to grayish white when old, "easily removable, often partially or completely washed out or rubbed away", leaving cap partially or fully bald, (Bojantchev), 4.5-12(15)cm across, nearly round to convex then flat; dark brown to grayish brown, yellow-brown, or bright yellow; covered with yellow, mealy or powdery warts that become flattened and grayish to dingy buff when old or occasionally disappear, margin non-striate or faintly striate, (Arora), straw-colored to yellowy brown or grayish brown, dotted with yellowish patches of volval remains; smooth, sticky when wet, then becoming dry, (Phillips), 4-12(15)cm across, nearly spherical to convex, then flat; dark brown to gray-brown, or light brown, margin often yellow at very edge; viscid when moist, covered with mealy, yellow warts that become flattened and grayish when old; margin not usually striate, (Lindgren)
FLESH: white to pale yellow, (Bojantchev), soft; white or tinged yellow, (Arora), sometimes bruising red-brown around insect holes at stem base, (Phillips)
GILLS: "narrowly attached to free", 0.9-2cm broad, crowded; "white to yellowish near the cap margin", (Bojantchev), adnate to adnexed or free, close; white or creamy yellow, (Arora), free or slightly adnexed, close, broad; whitish or yellow-tinged, (Phillips)
STEM: 4-15cm x 1-3cm, cylindric to widening downwards, "often with a distinct bulb" (also "prominent bulb in most basidiomata"), stem stuffed; yellow when young, often fading to whitish when old, typically yellowish above the ring; "surface above the bulb forming scaly girdles (finer towards the annulus) with yellow apices", often fading to bald when old, above the ring "distinctly longitudinally striate", (Bojantchev), 5-15(20)cm x 0.7-2.5cm, equal or widening downward, the base often enlarged; "white to pale yellow above the ring, white to yellow, buff, or grayish-tinged below", base often with orangish, reddish or brown stains inside or outside, (Arora), widening slightly downward, stuffed; white; smooth or slightly woolly, (Phillips), fibrillose to scaly toward base, smooth when old, (Lindgren), VOLVA powdery, friable universal veil forms "a scaly volva (scaly zones and / or yellow to grayish-yellow powdery scales)" at base of stem, but volva easily obliterated, (Arora), "mealy pieces of yellow tissue may form rings at the base or be left in the soil", (Lindgren), volva in the form of concentric rings of tissue on base, "rarely with a free collar at top of bulb", (Goetz, D.)
VEIL: universal veil yellow, forming rows of concentric warts on cap, stem base "girdled with veil remnants, distinctly rufescent in age"; ring "superior, membranous, pendant, upper surface distinctly striate, thinning, but rarely collapsing with age, typically fimbriate, pale yellow to yellow on both sides", developing darker yellow brown zones when old, (Bojantchev), forming membranous, superior, skirt-like ring that is white to pale yellow on upper surface, bright yellow to grayish yellow on underside, (Arora), ring with faint striations on upper surface (Goetz, D.), ring usually with felty gray to yellow patches on the edge, (Ammirati)
ODOR: mild (Bojantchev), faint, not distinctive (Phillips)
TASTE: mild (Bojantchev), not distinct (Lindgren)
EDIBILITY: avoid (Arora)
HABITAT: "common in the mixed coastal woods of California, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska", primary fruiting season is fall, but may fruit in late summer and fall in the Pacific Northwest and in winter and spring in California; tending to fruit in small numbers, typically 1-3 fruitbodies, rarely more, (Bojantchev), single to scattered or in small groups under both hardwoods and conifers, (Arora), on ground under conifers, in Pacific Northwest fruiting in September to October, (Lincoff), late summer to fall (Buczacki), summer, fall
SPORE DEPOSIT: white (Bojantchev, Arora)
MICROSCOPIC spores (7.8)8.5-9.3(11.2) x (5.2)6.0-6.8(7.8) microns, broadly elliptic to elliptic, "slight to distinctly inequilateral in 30-40% of the cases, with a prominent lateral apiculus", amyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 35-62 x 8-12 microns, clavate; marginal cells on gills 10-33 x 7-21 microns, "subglobose to sphaeropedunculate"; clamp connections not observed, (Bojantchev), spores 8-12 x 6-8 microns, elliptic, smooth, amyloid (Arora), spores 7-10 x 5.5-7 microns, broadly elliptic, smooth, amyloid; basidia 4-spored; pleurocystidia not differentiated, cheilocystidia scattered to abundant, 38-48 x 9-15 microns, subcapitate, thin-walled and readily collapsing; gill trama divergent from a central strand, the cells short and broad, inamyloid; cap trama floccose beneath thin gelatinous pellicle, inamyloid, (Smith(48))
NAME ORIGIN: means "majestic" or "venerable" (Bojantchev)
SIMILAR: Amanita augusta is like browner forms of Amanita 'pantherina' but ring and warts on cap are not white, and volva is different.
SOURCES: Bojantchev(5), Arora(1) (as A. aspera), Lindgren(1) (as Amanita franchetii), Smith(48) (as Amanita asper), Trudell(4)* (as Amanita franchetii), NYBG(1) (as A. aspera), Phillips(1)* (as Amanita franchetii), Miller(14)* (as Amanita franchetii), Lincoff(2)* (as A. aspera), Ammirati(1)* (as A. aspera), Kibby(1)* (as Amanita franchetii), Goetz, D.(1) (as Amanita franchetii), AroraPocket* (as Amanita franchetii), O'Dell(1) (as Amanita franchetii), Kroeger(5), Desjardin(6), Siegel(2)*
FAMILY: Amanitaceae of Order Agaricales
Found next to conifers living and dead with needle duff and leaf litter. Found alone and early in the season
Brown umbonate mushroom with striate cap and white at apex of stipe
Found growing on well rotted wood in an Umbellularia/Quercus agrifolia forest with some occasional Acer macrophyllum.
Link to the .ab1 file
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AUtHgishgAK8iYWDW2CO-1gPy0RzbyCf?usp=sharing