D. Malloch 24-08-24/03 Solitary in soil in association with Betula alleghaniensis and Picea rubens - Collected by Keith N. Egger
In herbarium, New Brunswick Museum (NBM)
Mixed wood forest, growing from well rotted wood of Picea. Gills pinkish edged under 10x scope. 2-spored basdia with pointy cheilocystidia, amyloid spores
Coastal foredune, growing with beach grass. Every year I find some new variation of the appearance of this species and take it to do a spore print thinking it might be something else, only for it to be the same old. This time extremely white variety
Still working this out. On coastal sand dune near Hudsonia tomentosa, Myrica pensylvanica and Ammophila.
Asci not amyloid. Looks like three oil drops in KOH. In Melzers its looks like the immature asci are reddish. Back smooth and same color as center. Crusty edge of cap, not sure if that makes it one of the eyelash groups? I thought it might have been Sphaerosporella brunnea, but the spores are ovals 16.5 x 5.3 um
Gymnopilus liquiritiae (?)- IMG-56
Caps - 2 1/8 - 3 1/4 cm wide, plane to shallowly depressed with wavy margins. Glabrous, sublubricous,
bright tawny-orange at disc becoming yellow at margins. Context yellowish. Margins not striate.
Gills - Adnate, very crowded, shallow. Straw yellow bruising darker when rubbed. Edges entire. Four
tiers of lamellulae.
Stipe - 4-6 cm long and 3-4 mm thick. Pale lemon yellow at apex becoming dingy ochre-yellow below.
Equal, curved, becoming 'lumpy' near base. Stuffed at first becoming hollow in age. Base with
some white tomentum and sparse rusty velar shards.
Odor - Mild.
Taste - Mildly bitter.
Spores - Rusty-orange, dextrinoid.
Habitat - Gregarious on a conifer stick at the Stimpson Family Preserve on Sept. 22, 2019.
Spores - Ellipsoid, thick-walled, verrucose; 8-10 x 5-6.1 microns. Q = 1,56.
Basidia - Clavate, 4-spored, 25-29 x 6-8.5 microns.
Cheilocystidia - Flexuous clavate at 20-29 x 7 microns and also filamentous capitate at 40 x 6 microns.
Pleurocystidia - Also filamentous - capitate. Rare.
Pileipellis - A cutis of thin radially parallel hyphae.
Pileal Trama - Also of parallel hyphae a bit wider than the pileipellis hyphae.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/63110710
Fungee V
Gymnopilus "sp-IN03"
Going with this for now because there are other viable options.
DNA ITS
Gymnopilus flavidellus
Gymnopilus flavidellus
a member of Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies Order Agaricales
Gymnopilus "sp-IN03" is Gymnopilus flavidellus. Confirmed by sequence we obtained (with colleague Allison Walker from Acadia University) from a Hesler-authenticated collection (see Hesler 1969, North American Species of Gymnopilus, Mycologia Memoir No. 3); all sequences of "sp-IN03" we've examined cluster with the sequence from this authenticated collection of G. flavidellus.
Agaricineae 1. Hemlock wood chips. Average spore size 8.5 x 5 microns.
A small Gymnopilus from the G. sapineus group . It appears abundant and common.
The caps on these are smooth, yellow-orange, and are small. Mostly at ground level on conifer material, douglas fir and similar.
Cap 3.5 cms., yellow/orange/red/brown. Smooth, and convex.
Gills, adnate, crowded to close, fairly narrow, yellow to orange/brown.
Taste bitter.
Spores verrucose, reddish, elliptical, oval, and almond. (7.0-9.0) x (5.0-5.7)
Pleurocystidia capitate about 30 x 7;
basidia 24 x 6.5.
GenBank ITS PP291716.1
Growing on decorticated stump of Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus). Odor sweet and anise-like.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179445410 - on Quercus rubra
Observation 179448541 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179451484 - on Betula papyrifera
Observation 179453842 - on Tsuga canadensis
Observation 179460097 - on Acer rubrum
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra
Saprobic. On decorticated Red Oak (Quercus rubra) branch and immediately adjacent leaf litter. Odor indistinct.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179422751 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179448541 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179451484 - on Betula papyrifera
Observation 179453842 - on Tsuga canadensis
Observation 179460097 - on Acer rubrum
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra
Growing from decorticated White Pine (Pinus strobus) log. Odor slightly vegetal / indistinct.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179422751 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179445410 - on Quercus rubra
Observation 179451484 - on Betula papyrifera
Observation 179453842 - on Tsuga canadensis
Observation 179460097 - on Acer rubrum
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra
On well rotted Paper Birch (Betula papyrifera) log. Odor faint, lightly sweet. Stem pliant.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179422751 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179445410 - on Quercus rubra
Observation 179448541 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179453842 - on Tsuga canadensis
Observation 179460097 - on Acer rubrum
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra
Growing from old wound at base of living Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). Some showing clustered/cespitose growth habit. Odor slightly grassy / vegetal.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179422751 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179445410 - on Quercus rubra
Observation 179448541 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179451484 - on Betula papyrifera
Observation 179460097 - on Acer rubrum
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra
On well decayed Red Maple (Acer Rubrum) stump. Growing singly. Odor sweet, anise-like.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179422751 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179445410 - on Quercus rubra
Observation 179448541 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179451484 - on Betula papyrifera
Observation 179453842 - on Tsuga canadensis
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra