Growing from Abies duff in mixed Abies/Pinus forest. Warner Mountains, Modoc NF.
Smell farinaceous, taste mild
Thick, white rhizomorph a extending from base, holding on tenaciously to substrate
Found on the underside of a piece of Doug-fir lumber from a
dilapidated structure near the bigfoot trap.
1st photo shows UV reaction.
~ Collings Mountain Trail ~
Growing in the moss on a red alder.
Brown spore print in last picture.
Growing on a red alder.
Sweet earthy smell and mild sweet earthy taste.
Brown/tan spore print in last picture.
Pink fruibodies with decurrent gills and depressed center,
Growing trailside in mossy soil under plant foliage,
Near redwod/alder/doug fir,
Mild UV on gills,
No odor,
Indistinct taste,
Kind of a light brown KOH
Clearly not Lichenompahlia umbellifera, to which iNaturalist defaults if identified as Arrhenia onisca. Most likely Arrhenia onisca, but not yet confirmed by microscopy or DNA. Apparently iNaturalist chooses not to recognize the validity of Arrhenia onisca, a rare but recognized omphalinoid species. Growing in moss near shore of Cowlitz river.
White spore print. Cap 2cm. Specimen dried and kept for study.
Orangey brown fungi growing out of horse dung,
Cone shaped cap,
Near doug fir,
Mild UV on stipe,
No odor,
Indistinct taste,
Brown KOH
Collection and photo and notes by Buck McAdoo. Tentative ID Psathyrella cuspidata.
Large pleurocystidia >90u. Velar material on cap margin.
Psathyrella cuspidata - H-274
Caps - 2 1/2 - 6 cm wide, sharply conical to broadly conical, not appendiculate. Ochre-brown and a
bit more tawny at disc. Ochre band at margin. Fading hygrophanously to ochre from mid-cap first.
Moist, glabrous with finely striate margins when young, then with lined to corrugated margins in
age.
Gills - Adnexed, gray at first with white fimbriate edges becoming dark gray-brown in age. Very
fragile.
Stipe - 6-10 1/2 cm long and 4-8 mm thick. Equal, often curved at base. White, hollow, smooth, tend-
ing to split longitudinally.
Odor - Woodsy.
Taste - Mild.
Spores - Black.
Habitat - Gregarious on leaf litter at Sudden Valley on April 15, 2018.
Spores - Broadly ellipsoid, thick walled, truncate with big germ pore. 8.6-11.8 x 6-8 microns.
Basidia - 2 and rarely 3-spored, clavate, 22-25 x 9-10 microns.
Gill Trama - Of narrow, sinuous, parallel hyphae.
Pleurocystidia - Utriform to capitulate, 62-81 x 11.6-17 microns.
Cheilocystidia - Utriform, 30-49 x 10-12 microns.
Pileipellis - Three layers deep of vesiculose cells, hyaline in KOH. Pileal context of parallel ochre
hyphae with incrustations.
Odor indistinct.
ITS sequenced by Matt Gordon / Molecular Solutions.
Spore deposit pink-salmon. Spores 5-sided, 8.5 μm.
ITS sequenced by Matt Gordon / Molecular Solutions.