Found at the Siletz Bay NWR near Lincoln City, Oregon, on the Alder Island Trail, in three locations of 20 - 50 specimens per location, all within about a 30m range of each other. Habitat was generally along side trail in heavy gravel on moss or between gravel, generally under Sitka Spruce. Collection have continued to exist there through the beginning of January 2024.
Same group of mushrooms, now blackened, from this old observation http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189057955
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Dusky, large, sturdy, under Picea and Tsuga, Alnus nearby.