Fungabase :: SLB

Description

Fungus Type

agaric 

Habitat

Grows on rotting conifer wood (which may be mixed with duff when the wood is very rotten). 

Pileus

Bright orange; plane to umbilicate with slightly upturned margin; thin fleshed, translucent when moist; Pruinose (tiny hairs) on pileal surface; translucent-striate near margin;

 

Lamellae

Bright orange, slightly paler than pileus; adnate to subdecurrent; waxy; distant to subdistant.

 

Stipe

Similarly colored to pileus; may be pruinose with minute hairs; often with a tuft of fuzzy white mycelium at the base;

 

Micro

Basidia 4-spored, no clamp connections at base.

Subhymenium/trama with candelabra-like subhymenium made up of irregularly shaped di and trichotomously branched hyphal structures that give rise to a basidia layer. Also called "pachypodial trama."

Spores: elliptical to slightly amygdaliform. Size is quite variable; 6.7-13.3 x 3.7-7.4 microns

 

Comments

Whole fungus is bright orange, turns toward yellow as it dries. It bears a superficial resemblence to a very small Hygrophorous because of its bright color and and waxy gills, but is always much smaller and grows exclusively on wood.