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(MUOB)

Catalog #: MUOB 141425

Observer: Brian Looney

Number: MUOB 141425

Date: 2012-08-01

Verbatim Date: 2012-8-1

Locality: United States, North Carolina, Swain, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Heintooga picnic area

35.5654  -83.1745

Description: Original observation #141425 (Mushroom Observer)

Notes: Scattered in soil under spruce in spruce-fir forest along Flat Creek Trail, Heintooga overlook, GSMNP Pileus: 3-8 cm, 8A5-6, 9B6-7, 9C8 with some 4A4 spotting and white spotting, broadly convex to applanate, depressed but not noticeably in center, viscid when wet, smooth, waxy; margin even, striate tuberculate, crenate; context white, solid; smells like grease/lumber/dust, taste mealy becoming acrid; SP C+/D Lamellae: white to cream, adnate, no forking; guaiac + Stipes: 4-8 cm x 8-20 mm, white, bulbous occasionally compressed, context white, stuffed with chambers; guaiac ++, FeSO4 bright pink A?KNQS Spores: broadly ellipsoid to lacrymoid, (9.7-)9.1-8.4-7.8(-7.4) Ã- (7.8-)7.4-6.9-6.4(-6.2) µm, Q= (1.34-)1.29-1.22-1.15, amyloid plage, some connectives and some anastomosing spines, ornamentation (1.1-)0.9-0.8-0.6 µm, Gleoecystidia: abundant, (81-)69-59-49(-48) Ã- (12.6-)12.3-10.7-9.2 µm, narrowly cylindrical to narrowly clavate, apex often mucronate to rostrate, filled with oily contents Pileipellis: SV negative pseudocystidia, vermiculate-septate; subcutis ixoderm, ~100 µm

Disposition: TENN

Record ID: 8f5286a8-ab59-4a15-8bce-abe63258af0e

For additional information on this specimen, please contact: Nathan Wilson (nathan@collectivesource.com)