Favoritos de malacothrix

under a slight shrump in the decomposed grantie like sand was a large fruiting of this mushrooms making a half circle around a Chamise plant. Manzanita was ~5 m away, otherwise it was all chamise. No scent. very viscid cap with a slime veil extending down to the stem, stem had large ridge on it making it slightly flocculus. cap had a grey hue to it in situ, but it may have been due to it being past sundown

UVF 365 nm = dramatic blue

Rodent digs found throughout the area exclusively under chamise. Manzanita also present, and interior live oak within 100 feet, but digs were only under chamise. Digging revealed that the mycelial mat that truffles were found in and smelled the same dissipated with distance from chamise. Melanogaster also mixed in and more abundant. Parts of the mycelial mat smelled like Melanogaster and parts smelled like these -- distinctly of oil paint. Woodrat nest about 8 feet away.

Diminutive solitary fruitbody growing under salvia and chamise; there was an oak on the other side of the trail about 40 feet away, more or less. Video showing the habitat: https://photos.app.goo.gl/bmwpQFsUpivQSTH78

With sapling of scrub oak in chamise-dominated chaparral. Cap 1.6-2.6 cm, broadly umbonate, margins curved inward; golden brown, fibrillose, rimose (“stretch marks” at margins), vellipellis entire, appearing variegated or splotchy as though hygrophanous. Not scaly. Gills adnate, cream to tan; upper gill and lower cap context with distinct olive tones. Stipe 1-1.5 x 0.7 cm, incarnate (color of aged bone with reddish orange tinges), bulbous, hollow. Caulocystidia only on upper 1/3. Odor farinaceous.
Spores elliptical, asymmetric, 10.2-10.8[11.4,11.5] x [4.8]5.2-5.6[6.1,6.5] μm
Gill trama cellular.
Pleurocystidia 52x11 μm, ventricose, lageniform to subcapitate, 1.2 μm thick. Cheilocystidia shorter, lageniform.

HAY-F-000477 found by Harte Singer

Tiny brown mushroom growing from red ultramafic clay soil in a roadcut with mosses under Hesperocyparis sargentii and Quercus durata. Pileus light brown with fine fuzz. Lamellae concolorous, widely spaced,adnexed. Stipe blackish brown at base,fading to lighter brown at apex, ornamented with white fibrils.