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Maybe Clitocybe? At first glance I had thought maybe young Cantharellula umbonata, but it doesn't seem right at second glance. They have a similar texture but the gills are different and there is no umbo. The base of the stems are slimy/goopy.

Growing in pine needles under P. taeda and some P. palustris

This little mushroom is a total mystery to me. It was growing from a stick in a gully between two steep hillsides. Mycellium has covered the stick and turned it white. So far, this mushroom has not dropped any spores.

Found under pine. Fresh specimens smell strongly of almonds (or like "Panama Jack suntan lotion"). Older specimens have a hint of bitter cucumber rind to their scent (but are still almondy).

Stipes are long and tapered. Punctate to fibrillose at apex, smooth with some scattered fibrils at the base. Stems stain a bit yellow with handling.

The features are like a combination of Hygrophorus agathosmus and Hygrophorus pustulatus, so I assumed it was in this Section?

make sure to visit the GIF in the middle of the image carousel to see the ionomidotic reaction in action

all mounts made in KOH. excipulum composed of irregularly inflated/swollen chains of cells (asexual propagules as in I. irregularis?) which contain ionomidotic contents/granules; context composed of long, slender, even hyphae, possibly embedded in a gelatinous matrix; paraphyses filiform, multiseptate, only slightly exceeding asci, containing refractive yellow contents; asci biseriate; spores bi-guttulate and aseptate.

Spores:
(5.1) 5.3 - 6.5 (6.8) × (2.1) 2.2 - 2.6 (2.7) µm
Q = (2) 2.2 - 2.9 (3) ; N = 20
Me = 5.9 × 2.4 µm ; Qe = 2.5

Updated with new micrographs and emended description/notes on 2/4/24

cross-posted to http://www.ascofrance.fr/search_forum/78127

Growing scattered in soil with Q. nigra nearby

Smell not distinctive. Taste is nutty with maybe some bitterness (I don't taste bitter well). Texture is firm. Cap has a "skin" overlay

KOH is non reactive. No oozing

Gills and flesh fluoresce yellow under UV light. Faint purple colors present on the cap.

on highly rotted wood. below mostly pine. some privet, maple, and sweetgum in the understory as well. very wet conditions, so some features are "washed out"

similar observation from a couple of days ago:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194733291

Phomopsis sp. causes Hickory Crown Galls. Most on the ground had anamorph and teleomorph FBs of Nectria cinnabarina. More of these Nectria on galls than normal branches so maybe galls hold moisture longer? Vouchered. JET231123_04

I'm a bit confused on these blush/brown half-vases with distinctive stems! Undersides were covered in pores (not decurrent). Growing on roots/detritus under mostly pines (some maple nearby).

It's kinda funny, but the texture and physical features look like a mix between Rhodofomes and Onnia and Thelephora (haha!) :D

I've been seeing this button-like fungus (clear to tan in color) growing on pine branches for a while now. Their bases come to tapered attachment points--similar to fungi within the Helotiales order (and some within the Dacrymycetales order). The color is more similar to something in the Auriculariales order, however. They didn't seem to change shape or grow beyond the stages photographed here in the span of the month I watched them. I've never seen them any other shape but this. The largest diameter fruiting body was slightly under 1cm.

The undulations are hollow and will break fairly easily. Growing on what I believe is a dead hardwood. No obvious parasitism going on. No discernable odor. First micrograph at 400x (1div=2μm) showing septate 4-spored basidia. Second micrograph at 1000x (1div=1μm) showing clamp connections?