USA, North Carolina, Mcdowell, Little Switzerland, Deer Lick Gap Trail, near Wildacres; 35.823 -82.107
35.823 -82.107
1067 meters
3500 ft
cove hardwood forest under hardwoods
scattered singly on soil in leaf litter
Pileus 40-70 mm, convex to nearly plane, generally without an umbo, margin incurved to decurved; surface dry, dull, smooth, center warm buff to light yellow, whitish towards the margin, not hygrophanous, KOH no reaction on surface; flesh thick, firm, negative with PDAB, white, odor and taste mild or taste somewhat bitter, not changing color where cut. Lamellae adnate to adnexed, not decurrent, pale cream to pinkish buff, bruising yellow, crowded, very narrow, at times forked. Stipe 45-65 x 10-15 mm at the apex, gradually enlarged at the base up to 25 mm wide, clavate-bulbous, terete, central; white above, light yellor or light ocher-yellow below; apex white furfuraceous, more or less smooth, base somewhat tomentose where attached to leaf litter, producing white rhizomorphs; solid, flesh confluent with stipe, white, changing to light yellow slowly where cut, solid, firm. Spores 4-5 x 3-4 um, smooth, inamyoid, thin-walled but not many, specimens still immature. Basidia 4-spored, slenderly clavate. Clamp connections present (seen multiple times on p.p. hyphae). Pileipellis with the epicutis somewhat gelatinous in appearance, hyphae smooth, cylindric.