Rays noticeably thinner and more spider-like than A. hygrometricus in live oak woodland.
Chaparral, under manzanita.
Cap red-orange, granular, with soft texture. Stipe similar color with more yellow to incarnate tones, with distinct white warts near the base, ending in abrupt clavate bulb.
Under chamise, near manzanita.
Cap 3–4 cm diameter, shiny purplish brown, with vellipellis. Fleshy staining slightly reddish. Stipe base swollen. Cortina forming persistent annulus consistently near the base of the stipe.
Odor mild, slightly wet dog.
KOH-
Stipe and gills UV+ blue
Under chamise
Deep root
Odor slightly sweet
At base of dead tree, possibly chamise.
KOH+ red, quickly darkening.
UV+ green
Spores ellipsoid, with small hilar appendage, 14–16 x 10.4–11 μm; walls 1.5–2 μm thick; starting light yellow, becoming brown.
Basidia 34 x 9.4 μm.
With Arctostaphylos.
Anza Borrego
On leaves of laurel sumac
Spores smooth, ellipsoid.
Excipulum texture cubic.
Asci IKI-
Chocolate umbonate cap and stipe with white gills,
White latex,
Growing near sitka spruce,
UV,
Indistinct odor
Small golden brown fungi with darkened center and striate cap with pale stipe,
Indistinct odor/taste,
No KOH rxn
Near redwood/big leaf maple/sitka spruce
Growing in disturbed soil next to blacktop,
White UV rxn on cap margin
Bright orange ascos with white hairy margin,
Growing on deadwood,
Near pine,
No UV/odor
Brown mushroom with yellow gills,
Indistinct odor,
Growing near pine,
UV on gills,
Reddish brown KOH
Found by Phil Dekat,
Gray inky with long white stem,
Growing in boggy area
Brown fungi with lighter margin/stipe,
Growing near pine next to creek,
Mild UV on stipe,
Mild and pleasant fruity scent,
No taste,
Indistinct KOH
Brown pleurotoid fungus growing on deadwood,
Near pine,
No UV/odor,
Indistinct taste,
Brown KOH
Stalked, fuzzy, White ball shaped fungi growing on brown substrate(possibly dung?),
Near sitka spruce/hemlock,
Medium sized asco on deadwood,
Dark green center with mustard yellow margin,
Growing near tan oak/doug fir/bay laurel/maple/madrone/chinquapin,
Orange UV rxn,
Found by Phil Dekat,
Small light finely velvety olive fungi growing on deadwood,
Near tan oak/doug fir/chinquapin/bay laurel/ maple/madrone,
Lighter depressed center and lighter, striate cap margin,
Eraser odor,
White basal tomentum,
Sinuate gills,
No UV
Small brown fungi with partial veil remnants,
Growing near redwood/alder,
No taste/KOH
Indistinct odor,
White UV on gills; yellow UV at base of young specimen
Pink crust growing on deadwood near snowmelt and pine/aspen,
Indistinct KOH,
No UV
Small brown fruitbodies growing on deadwood,
Wavy, sinuate gills,
Dark brown stipe with lighter apex,
Blue UV on gills margin,
Near doug fir/madrone/chinquapin/bay laurel/tan oak/maple/evergreen Huckleberry/salal,
No odor,
Brown KOH,
Bitter taste