I think...very shiny/silvery and shaggy stipe that made me hope for Pouzarella, but seems unlikely from the cap texture. Microscopy shows caulocystidia/tufts near stipe apex, spores, two potential cheilocystidia, then the pileipellis at the central disc.
Claudopus sp. On road cut fruiting from mossy clay soil.
I think...very shiny/silvery and shaggy stipe that made me hope for Pouzarella, but seems unlikely from the cap texture. Microscopy shows caulocystidia/tufts near stipe apex, spores, two potential cheilocystidia, then the pileipellis at the central disc.
Leptonia of some kind? Long, pointed cheilocystidia. Pigment seemed diffuse in cells, rather than encrusted. Clamps visible in pileipellis.
On soil on a steep slope above a creek, redwood/alder/spruce mix. Mostly small spruce right here. Bleh, sorry about the dirty microscope -- mounted in KOH, inflated/rounded ends of cells in pileipellis.
Claudopus! Fruiting from...sand? Pardon my dirty microscope. Weird, wiggly cheilocystidia.
Leptonia sp. Col. #1024
Cap - 11 mm wide, convex, densely squamulose at disc becoming less scumy at margin. Dark
bluish violet, disc nearly black.
Gills - Adnate to marginate, subdistant, shallow. Pale flesh color. Edges entire. Three tiers of
lamellulae.
Stipe - 2 1/2 cm long and 2 mm thick. Glabrous, wiry, dark purple-blue. Hollow, tending to split
longitudinally.
Odor - Mild.
Spore deposit - Unobtainable.
Habitat - Solitary in moss at the Stimpson Reserve on Sept. 24, 2021.
Buck McAdoo - 232 #20
Photos 2, 3, 4 caulocystidia
Photo 5 cutis
Photo 6 pileocystidium
Photo 7 subpellis hyphae
(all photos by R. Morrison)
Nolanea bicoloripes
Caps - 6-7 1/2 cm wide, domed with a flattened marginal zone, margins lobed and irregular. Domed
part ochre-brown, margin area a paler ochre brown fading hygrophanously to pale tan. Margins
finely striate when moist. Context very thin.
Gills - Adnate and seceding, subdistant and deep (up to 1 cm deep). Buff becoming mottled pinkish.
Many tiers of lamellulae.
Stipe - 9-11 cm long and 8-9 mm thick. Equal and sometimes curved. Glabrous, white, pithy. White
pruinose at apex. Base with white tomentum.
Odor - Mild
Taste - Farinaceous.
Spore deposit - Flesh-pink.
Habitat - Four scattered in cedar duff at the Stimpson Reserve on July 29, 1993.
Spores - 5-6 sided, (6.5) 7.7-9 (11) x (6) 7- 7.4 microns. Q = 1.22. Subisodiametric.
Basidia - 4-spored, 25-34 x 10-13 microns. Clavate.
Cheilocystidia - None seen.
Pleurocystidia - None seen.
Pileipellis at margin - A cutis of parallel hyphae 3-6 microns wide.
Subpellis - Of bloated parallel hyphae 20-35 microns wide.
Pileal trama - Of parallel hyphae 7-10 microns wide.
Pileipellis at disc - Of densely entangled hyphae 3-6 microns thick.
Pileocystidia - Cylindrical with slightly expanded apices. 8 microns wide.
Stipitipellis - Of vertical hyphae 3-12 microns wide. Also long moniliform hyphae, fusoid in shape
with rounded and tapered ends. 10-15 microns wide.
These are probably the caulocystidia.
Last 2 microphotos by David Largent. He cannot tell what genus it is but it definitely is not N. bicoloripes.
Nolanea sp - 209#3
Caps - 2-4 cm wide, convex to plane with undulate margins in age. Glabrous, dry, pale gray brown.
Context thin, white.
Gills - Adnexed, pale pink, distant and ventricose near stipe apex. Edges uneven but entire. Two tiers
of lamellulae.
Stipe - Up to 4 1/2 cm long and 4-6 mm thick. Dry, silvery white and curved in one specimen. Smooth
and tapering towards base which then enlarges with white tomentum.
Odor - Mild.
Taste - Sweetish.
Spore deposit - Flesh-pink.
Habitat - A pair in conifer duff at the Stimpson Reserve on September 5, 1992.
Spores - 5-6 sided, subisodiametric, 8-10 x 7.8-9 microns. Q = 1.16.
Basidia - 2 and 4-spored, 29.6-34 x 9-11.5 microns. Clavate.
Cheilocystidia - Narrowly fusiform with a neck to utriform. 33-40 x 10-12.6 microns.
Pleurocystidia - None seen.
Clamps - Seen in the gill trama.
Pileal Trama - Of parallel hyphae 6-12 microns wide.
Pileipellis at margin - A cutis of radially parallel hyphae 2 1/2 - 5 microns wide.
Subpellis - More bloated parallel hyphae at 7-21 microns wide.
Pileipellis at disc - Interwoven hyphae, some with extended ends.
Subpellis and pileal context at disc - More interwoven hyphae.
Stipitipellis - Of vertical hyphae 3-16 microns wide.
Clusters of basidiole like cells at apex - 15-25 x 10 microns.
Trama of stipitipellis - Bloated vertical hyphae 18-21 microns wide, clavate to fusiform. And septate.