Cream/gray/brown-capped mushrooms growing under pine, in soil.
Stem bases come to a taper and are brown to cream color. Covered in a wooly, white floccose material which is condensed at the base (and is even seen at the cap margin in young specimens).
Creamy white, slightly decurrent gills.
All surfaces aging to light/medium brown.
Caps turn upward with age, becoming more funnel-like. Young specimens have flat to slightly depressed caps.
No distinct odor detected.
Lyophyllaceae PNW01
It exploded when I touched it.
Orange-yellow crust growing on the underside of a decaying log. Spore color appears to be white.
Associated larvae:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194456111
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194455757
Growing singly from soil near oak.
KOH stains the cap yellow
Smell and taste not distinctive
Does not fluoresce
Continuing observation of this Gloeomucro species at
county site #2 showed specimens increasing along log.
Spore size:
Piximètre 5.10 R 1541 : le 16/06/2024 à 10:24:41.8037952
5.3 [6.2 ; 6.6] 7.5 × 2.4 [3 ; 3.2] 3.8 µm
Q = 1.6 [2 ; 2.2] 2.6 ; N = 40 ; C = 95%
Me = 6.4 × 3.1 µm ; Qe = 2.1
Microscopy by Brooks45
Previously observed these when fresh. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147916423