"Sectioid" or mummified. Fruiting bodies 2-3.5 centimeters tall, subepigeous to +/- erumpent, white becoming (4B3 M) greyish yellow from handling and exposure; appearing secotioid, veil connecting edge of bulb to cap margin, white, stipe whitish to creamy white, context with incarnate central area (disappears within 3-5 minutes on most), bulb rounded or nepriform, 1-2.5 centimeters long x 8-12 millimeters at apex and 6-13 millimeters at bulb rim. Cap margin strongly inrolled, convoluted, lamellae white to creamy white, some normal, others convoluted or "confused" looking. Some with obvious parasite--white "mold." Under scope with large clamps and hyphae fairly wide: 15-20 micrometers. Inocybe albodisca (normal) growing nearby, maybe from same mycelium and part is infected with Basidiomycete mold--eg. Christensenia on Collybia.
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Ben Woo
MTS4472
1997-11-01
1997-11-1
U.S.A., Washington, Thurston, Tolmie State Park.
47.118761 -122.776854 +-653m. WGS 84
Near concrete pad and picnic tables, Pseudotsuga menziesii nearby with alder and maple.
Taste mild, odor none. Cuticle a cutis of repent[?] +/- interwoven hyphae, a few pileocystidia seen, clamps seen in global area, spores angular. Cystidia incrusted, scattered. Photo by B.W. and some notes.