USA, North Carolina, Yancey, Mt. Mitchell State Park, Balsam Nature Trail
35.765 -82.2652 +-1000m.
1951 meters
6400 ft
Abies fraseri forest with some Picea rubens and Tsuga
on soil
Stipe darkens with age, pileus 15-30 mm wide, stipe 30-40 x 3 mm, base bulbous "marginate"; spores 7-9 x 5.5-6 microns, nodulose with 6-8 moderate-sized nodules about an often angular outline, occ. tetrahedral; cystidia fusiform to ventricose or almost saccate, apically thick-walled up to 2.5 microns thick, mostly hyaline, not long (43-51 x 14-18 um); basidia 4-sterig.
Inocybe nodulosa ITS same as PBM4064, somewhat surprising except for the marginate stipe base.