Growing on eucalyptus tetradonta I think. Never seen a fungus like it.
(9.7) 12.1 - 20.8 (23.8) × (2.1) 2.8 - 3.6 (3.8) µm
Q = (2.7) 3.7 - 6.4 (7.8) ; N = 59
Me = 15.8 × 3.2 µm ; Qe = 5
hemlock, white pine, red oak
Under red pine, s. maple, juneberry, cherry, Carpinus, ash, beech, w. pine https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19OubHpec_UBnMAmO1oiemp-p1Z51mlk_SJROXIVEVT0/edit?usp=drivesdk
Found by Erin Blanchard, Noah Siegel, and Christian Schwarz, first posted at:
http://mushroomobserver.org/64583
The first micro-shot is of the gill edge at 400x in Meltzer’s. There are cheilocystidia, and they are lageniform with capitate ends. No pleurocystidia were obs.
The second micro-shot is of spores from the gills at 1000x in Meltzer’s. They are tan, lacrymose, warted and non-dextrinoid. Small spores, with an ave. size of 5 × 3 um.
The id of these is a little problematic. They are fairly well described in Bon and Roux “Le Genre Gymnopilus en Europe”, as G. josserandii. But this is a European name. There is in Hesler “North American Species of Gymnopilus”, G. subbellulus, with the small non-dextrinoid spores, and no veil. But this desc. includes the existence of plueorcystidia, which I didn’t see here. And the descriptions in the Bon and Roux are better anyway, so I am going with that id.
Bright yellow margins when moistened (with saliva... I didn't bring water)
On red oak, with Diatrype and T. biforme
Wood mulch pile.
[admin – Sat Aug 14 02:03:46 +0000 2010]: Changed location name from ‘New Waterford OH’ to ‘New Waterford, Ohio, USA’
100% match to G. subpurpuratus, G. cf punctifolius and G. aeruginosus sequences
DJ Phillips collection. Bitter taste, psychoactive.
Caulocystidia cylindrical to ventricose, occasionally somewhat capitate, with clamp connections. Cheilocystidia lageniform, usually with a swollen apex. Pleurocystidia absent.
Spores measure:
(7.1) 7.2 – 8.1 (9.3) × (4.4) 4.7 – 5.28 (5.3) µm
Q = (1.4) 1.5 – 1.7 (1.8) ; N = 11
Me = 7.8 × 5 µm ; Qe = 1.6
8.08 5.28
7.46 5.05
7.64 5.32
8.01 5.02
7.78 4.93
7.11 4.38
9.28 5.20
7.91 5.25
7.81 4.70
7.21 4.88
8.04 4.76
Sclerotium with aphids
Near red oak, pine
near red oak, the chem tests (top-FeSO4, KOH, Ammonia) were the same as the subvelutipes under hemlock
On dead Elm
Troops of match-like yellow-orange gelatinous caps, becoming deformed as they mature, on a dirty white stipe, attached to rotten debris inside water, in a swamp, edge of river; Pine Barrens.