Growing on pine duff in forest. Pileus grey, striate, lighter and ruffled irregularly at the margins. Lamellae light grey, free. Stipe whitish grey with a yellowish base.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/17418599
Likely the same as this
On old rodent dung, fruiting right after snow melt
One of the strangest things I have seen. Dozens, maybe more than a hundred of these flies all parasitized by the same fungus, totally covering some plants in post-mortem grips. I have seen Cordyceps and similar fungi before, but never so many victims at once.
Small, tan fungi,
Growing out of moss in the dunes,
No odor,
White UV on gills
60mm wide cap. Convoluted and conical/bell shaped. Rusty sand colored felty veil tissue, easily rubbed off revealing striations. NO shaggy caps. Scabrous hollow stipe, darkening/yellowing at the base. Abruptly bulbous base with nodules and rhizomorphs. Gills white then mauve then brown/black. Black spores. Growing in large clumps on dead wood. Tastes somewhat vegetal. Deliquescing smelled quite foul.
Reminds me of Sclerotinia, found in a decaying polytrichum juniperinum mat.
Excuse the slight variation in color, dark environment. The stipe appears to have a shiny greyish lilac coloration to it.
Fruiting in moss covered/rotted wood beneath Douglas fir, snowbrush and Ponderosa pine.
Very small specimens.
Cap: granulose, powdery, veil material hanging from margins.
Gills: reddish/pink. Free.
Stem: pruinose, pinkish maroon, veil band visible.
Bulb attached to substrate.
Harvested 4 specimens.
Performed crush mount in KOH to view spores.
Spores: elliptical, slightly curved.
Dehydrated all specimens and bagged for herbarium collection.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-
Growing from red alder, looks like the Xylaria atropictor anamorph to me.
Specimen was saved and I'm attempting to get this cultured on MEA from ascospores.
Old growth conifer forest of mostly western hemlock and silver fir.
On mossy ground.
Collected with Regina Johnson
Found near roots that were growing from a nurse log, which was likely spruce.
It appears to have hooked parathesis, septate spores, and the asci are amyloid in melzers reagent.
Not sure what this is, collected and attempts at cultures are underway. So far fungi of temperate Europe vol. 2 is turning up nothing.
Two fruiting bodies beneath Douglas fir.
Vibrant neon yellow gills. Notched/adnexed, slightly decurrent.
Non-staining collection.
Odor: pleasant melon rind/mango odor.
Harvested both specimens.
Applied Ammonia to cap tissue of larger specimen.
Ammonia: Purple immediately, drying reddish maroon. See shots of reaction included.
Removed a single gill and mounted in both Lugol’s and 3% KOH.
MICROSCOPY:
Spores: elongate elliptical, spindle shaped. Medium sized.
Pleurocystidia: very large! Thick walled, double walled, subfusoid-fusoid, broadly spade shaped.
Basidia: 4 sterigmate.
Lamellar Trama: bundled layers of globose to subglobose elements.
Laid 1/2 of larger specimen’s cap directly on a separate slide to obtain spore print.
Spore Print: Dull Grayish, pinkish yellow. “Dusty pinkish cream” in direct light.
Mounted spore printed slide in Lugol’s solution.
Spore printed slide micro: mature spores Dextrinoid in Lugol’s solution(rusty ferruginous brown in Lugol’s).
Dehydrated specimens and bagged for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation below-
In boggy area with sphagnum moss.
Old Growth montane conifer habitat.
Initial ID a suggestion by Connor .
Fruiting in moss covered/rotted wood beneath Douglas fir, snowbrush and Ponderosa pine.
Very small specimens.
Cap: granulose, powdery, veil material hanging from margins.
Gills: reddish/pink. Free.
Stem: pruinose, pinkish maroon, veil band visible.
Bulb attached to substrate.
Harvested 4 specimens.
Performed crush mount in KOH to view spores.
Spores: elliptical, slightly curved.
Dehydrated all specimens and bagged for herbarium collection.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-
Excuse the slight variation in color, dark environment. The stipe appears to have a shiny greyish lilac coloration to it.
Spore measurements:
(6.4) 6.5 - 8.2 (8.5) × (4.3) 4.4 - 5.46 (5.5) µm
Metuloid cystidia at:
43.6 - 53.2 × (11.8) 11.82 - 13.5 µm
Basidia measure around,
22.3 - 26.3 × (6.1) 6.11 - 6.2 µm
4 pronged basidia.
Mounted in KOH
Growing near western red cedar, the cap is highly viscid