Fungabase :: SLB

Description

Fungus Type

agaric 

Habitat

Growing on very decomposed alder (Alnus rubra) wood and more rarely on Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), habit gregarious to occasionally clustered at stipe base. 

Pileus

Plane to depressed; leather colored (light creamy to honey brown), lightest on the outer margin; minute dark scabers over disc; radially striate; hygrophanous.

 

Lamellae

Notched to subdecurrent; white with weepy yellow-orange (to tan brown) stains; spore print creamy white.

 

Stipe

Even, becoming bulbous at base; chestnut light brown at apex fading to dark olivaceous brown mid stipe to chiffon lemon or whitish yellow at base; annulus present; veil tissue whitish gray, fiberous yellow hairs present below annulus zone; dark rizomorphs present at base.

 

Micro

Spores: pip-shaped, ovoid, elliptical, smooth; 7.5-10.5 x 5-6um.

Basidia: 4-spored

 

Comments

Likely part of a species complex, this is a difficult to define group!