Young fruiting bodies beneath Douglas fir.
Fruiting bodies orange brown throughout.
Cap: densely matted/fibrillose.
Gills: vibrant orange(unique for Inocybe).
Stem: scaly and tinged pinkish where handled. Pruinose at apex. Stem base is white, not bulbous.
Stem context: vibrant carrot orange.
Odor: fishy metallic with slightly spermatic back note.
Harvested 5 specimens.
Removed gill tissue from a single specimen and mounted on slide in 3% KOH.
Spore printed cap directly on a separate slide for spore print.
MICROSCOPY: from gill mount.
Cheilocystidia: Metuloid, club shaped. Encrusted with granules at apex(golden yellow encrustations in KOH).
Spores: narrowly elliptic to ovoid, smooth, thick walled, Medium in size.
Basidia: only 4 sterigmate analyzed.
Spore print(slide#2): dull brown/grayish brown.
Dehydrated all specimens thoroughly and bagged for herbarium collection/genetic record.
Gills and stem context drying vibrant orange after full dehydration.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation below-
No scales on cap. Viscus cap. Decomposer. Spore print dark brown. Color deepens to reddish-brown with KOH. Gills glow green under UV light. Stipe is nearly hollow. Flesh is tan. Smell is fungal.
These are the PINKEST Contumyces rosellus I’ve ever seen, and are lacking the marginate gills I’m used to seeing….so not sure…very open to other ids!