In mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest: Pseudotsuga menziesii, Sequoia sempervirens, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, with Vaccinium ovatum and Gaultheria shallon dominant understory
Growing from moss covered vertical soil bank and duff on side of road
Slightly depressed funnel shaped stipitate polypore with a velutunous surface, concentric growth rings of different brown shades radiating from the center. White pores, staining brown. Stipe brown, velutunous
Black KOH on cap and stipe
Smell instinct
Taste mild

FDS-CA-00744
Mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest near the south fork of the Gualala River
Growing near the base of Pseudotsuga menziesii in duff
Golden coloration with bell shaped, slightly tomentose pileus with an in-rolled margin, pellicle easily peeling from cap. Smooth fibrous stipe and white mycelial tufts at base of stipe
Smell and taste indistinct
KOH slightly brown over time

FDS-CA-00704
Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park, Pinehurst Staging Area- EBRPD. Baccharis pilularis, Eriogonum fasciculatum, Frangula californica, Umbellularia californica and Quercus agrifolia dominated CA chaparral and woodlands
Growing abundantly in Baccharis pilularis leaf litter
Tiny white, almost translucent Hemimycenoid with veil-like decurrent lamellae
No smell detectable

FDS-CA-00723
In Pinus radiata and Quercus agrifolia dominated suburban forest
Growing mostly on the underside and beneath bark layer on decomposing Pinus radiata log. Seen growing in the cavities of the log where the woodlouse seem to be eating the mycelium
Yellow to orange pored crust with white margins. Tops of reflexed fruit bodies slightly tomentose, pores elongating in age to appear almost dentate and becoming slightly silvery in color
Smell like brie cheese
Taste sweet
Yellow KOH

FDS-CA-00722
In Pinus radiata and Quercus agrifolia dominated suburban forest
Growing beneath bark layer on decomposing Pinus radiata log
White fuzzy fungus with guttation droplets
Taste slightly sour
Smell indistinct
No KOH

FDS-CA-00720
In Pinus radiata and Quercus agrifolia dominated suburban forest
Growing on well decomposed and partially buried Pinus radiata log
Rusty orange, smooth pileus, tan to yellowish broadly attached lamellae, cortina-like partial veil stained by rusty orange spores, fibrous tan to yellowish stipe
Taste very bitter
Smell indistinct
Wine red KOH

Growing in mid elevation mixed conifer forest. Pileus pink to pale yellowish white, broadly campanulate. Lamellae peachy pink, fading to white. Stipe smooth, pinkish at apex, fading to greyish brown at the base, with greyish basal tomentum.

Hypholoma elongatum
Caps - 3/4 - 2 cm wide, convex with barely lobed margins. Margins faintly striate when moist. Disc
caramel becomong paler ochre at margins. Glabrous, lubricous, and hygrophanous, fading when
drying to orange-buff.
Gills - Adnate to adnexed, crowded at first, subdistant in age. Pale mustard color. Edges entire.
Stipe - 5 - 5 1/2 cm long and 2 mm thick. Smooth, wiry, often curved. Hollow, sheeny, equal. Pale
straw color at apex becoming a pallid brick color and then dark tawny at base. Extreme base
dark brown.
Odor - Peculiar.
Taste - Mild.
Spore deposit - Unobtainable.
Habitat - Gregarious in duff under hemlock at the Stimpson Reserve on Oct. 14, 2021.

Conocybe sp. Col. #1020
Caps - 3/4 - 3 1/2 cm wide, plano-convex with finely striate margins at first. Glabrous, lubricous,
slippery when moist. Ochre fading hygrophanously from disc first to a pale straw color.
Veil - Buff appendiculate velar material hanging from margins.
Gills - Adnate, subventricose in age. Pale yellowish straw color becoming more ochre in age. Also
more distant in age. Edges entire. Dried gills are rusty.
Stipe - 2 1/2 - 5 1/2 cm long and 2-3 mm thick. Silvery white and often curved. Hollow. Equal until
expanding slightly at base.
Odor - Peculiar.
Taste - Slightly metallic.
Spores - Unobtainable.
Habitat - Gregarious in leaf litter near hardwoods. Stimpson Reserve on Sept. 24, 2021.
Spores - Ellipsoid, thick-walled (dark brown in KOH), 9-11 (11.7) x 4.2-5.4 (6.2) microns. Q = 2.00.
No germ pore.
Basidia - Clavate, 4-spored, 19-28 x 7.2-9 microns.
Cheilocystidia - Fusiform with long necks or vesiculose with short necks.
Gill Trama - Of parallel hyphae 3.7-12 microns wide.
Pileipellis - A pallisadoderm, apices a bit squared off or sphaeropedunculate at 12-15 microns wide. Pedicellate.
Pileal Trama - Of parallel hyphae 5-10 microns wide.
Clamps - On the caulocystidia.
Stipitipellis - Of vertical hyphae 4-9 microns wide.
Caulocystidia - Of branched, knobbed, and contorted hyphae 7-14 microns wide. Multi septate. A few
with clavate apices.
Comment: Close to Conocybe appendiculata, but that species has subcapitate cheilos and spores 6.5-8.5 x 4-5 microns.

Ramaria concolor form concolor - Photo F-213

Frb. – 12 cm tall by 9 cm wide.
Branches – Dull ochre bruising vinaceous. More or less vertically oriented and tightly packed. Some
white tomentum at base. Very stringy.
Tips – Ochre to mostly vinaceous.
Odor – Strongly funky-musty.
Taste – Astringent.
Spores – Ochre. Ellipsoid, warty. 8-10.2 x 4-5 microns.
Basidia - 4-spored, slenderly clavate, 40-41 x 6-7 microns.
Clamps - Present.
Habitat – Colonies under conifers in moss at Stimpson Reserve on September 9, 2014.

GES9

Growing from Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla) wood.

KOH reddish-brown; UV reactive (gills orange); odor indistinct; taste mildly bitter; cap 4 cm; height 4 cm.

Notes: Cap with patches of depressed fibrils. Gills with darker spots. Whitish ring of color on stipe near cap.