U.S.A., Texas, Tyler, Temple-Inland Forest Lake Experimental Forest, plot 44
30.661 -94.0975
Scattered under water oaks, Plot 44, Forest Lake
PILEUS Varying from dingy purplish red to reddish brown some yellow showing through. 2.5-4 cm., plane-convex, depressed at disk, glabrous, viscid wet margin at first even - tuberculate-striate in age; CUTICLE peels 1/2 to disk; CONTEXT white, brown in age, odor mild, taste mild, watery in age; LAMELLAE white becoming or staining yellow close, adnate, 3-6 mm. broad, acute, entire; STIPE white staining golden yellow, eventually dingy yellowish brown 2-2.5 cm. long, 5-10 mm., slightly clavate to base, dry, glabrous, solid; SPORE PRINT D; SPORES broadly ellipsoid, spiny, up to 1 µm high, somewhat catenulate but few connected, 9-9.6 X 7-8.2 µm; CYSTIDIA common on edge. COMMENTS. In Kibby & Fatto Code A I (K) O Q T (V); At first believed to be R. puellaris, but SEM work has found it to be R. appalachiensis known from West Virginia?