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Russula compacta
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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods, and with conifers in northern areas; growing scattered or gregariously; summer and fall; east of the Rocky Mountains, with range extending as far south as Costa Rica.
Cap: 3-18 cm; convex when young, later flat or broadly convex, often with a slightly sunken center; sticky when fresh; more or less smooth, the cap "skin" peeling about halfway to the center, sometimes breaking up in age; white to whitish or orangish yellow when young, but soon discoloring dirty yellowish to reddish brown, and in age appearing completely tawny brown; bruising reddish brown; the margin not lined.
Gills: Attached to the stem; crowded, close, or almost distant; white to cream, eventually yellowish cream; bruising and discoloring reddish brown.
Stem: 3-10 cm long; 1-3.5 cm thick; sturdy; more or less equal; dry; smooth; whitish, but soon flushed reddish brown; bruising reddish brown.
Flesh: White; discoloring yellowish to yellowish brown or reddish brown on exposure; thick.
Odor and Taste: Odor foul and somewhat fishy, the pungency increasing as the mushroom ages; odor of dried specimens strongly unpleasant; taste mild or slightly acrid.
Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface green to olive. Iron salts on stem surface and flesh grayish green.
Spore Print: White.
Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 6-8.5 ; elliptical; ornamented with low warts extending to about .5 high; with scattered connectors that sometimes form partial, broken reticula. Pleurocystidia clavate to fusiform; abundant; negative in sulphovanillin. Pileipellis a cutis; pileocystidia absent.
Cystolepiota seminuda
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Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or gregariously in hardwood and conifer forests, in humus or from well-decayed wood; late summer and fall; widely distributed throughout North America. The illustrated and described collection is from Illinois.
Cap: 1-3 cm; convex, expanding to bell-shaped or broadly convex, with a broad central bump; dry; covered with a powdery, granular dusting; white, developing reddish to pink spots; the margin not lined, hung with powdery veil remnants.
Gills: Free from the stem; close; short-gills frequent; white, becoming yellowish white.
Stem: 30-40 mm long; 1-2 mm thick; equal; when fresh and young covered with powdery material like the cap; becoming nearly bald; white when young, becoming reddish to pink from the base up; basal mycelium white and copious.
Flesh: Whitish; very thin.
Odor: Not distinctive.
Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface.
Spore Print: White.
Microscopic Features: Spores 4-5 x 1.5-2.5 ; cylindric to long-ellipsoid, or occasionally somewhat irregular; smooth; hyaline in KOH; yellowish in Melzer's. Basidia 4-sterigmate; to about <NOBR>18 x 5 .</NOBR> Hymenial cystidia not found. Pileipellis a cystoderm of subglobose, inflated elements 20-30 wide, hyaline in KOH. Clamp connections present.
Blumenavia rhacodes
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Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or gregariously--often near stumps or woody debris; originally described from Brazil; distributed, at a minimum, from Brazil through Mexico and into Texas, but precise distribution limits are uncertain due to confusion with other species. The illustrated and described collection is from Texas.
Fruiting Body: When young appearing like a whitish to brown or black "egg," but soon "hatching" and developing into a cage-like structure measuring up to 13 cm high and 5 cm wide; oval in shape, composed of 3-5 unbranched, pale yellow to creamy whitish arms that are joined at the top; arms about 1-1.5 cm wide, in cross-section more or less triangular or four-sided, with the outer surface fairly flat (but lacking a pronounced longitudinal groove) and the inner surfaces more rough, punctuated by membranous flaps of tissue ("glebifers"); the edges between outer and inner surfaces often appearing jagged or "toothed"; spore slime dark brown, produced on the glebifers on the inner surfaces of the arms, from the top of each arm nearly to the bottom; bases of arms free, but encased in a whitish to dark gray, dark brown, or nearly black volva; base attached to prominent white rhizoids.
Microscopic Features: Spores 3-4 x 1-1.5 m; cylindric; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Hyphae of the volva 2-7 m wide; smooth; hyaline in KOH; with clamp connections.
Aleuria cestrica
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Ecology: Trophic role uncertain; possibly saprobic or mycorrhizal; growing gregariously on the ground under oaks and possibly other hardwoods, often in moss; late spring through fall; distributed in North America from the Great Plains eastward; also known from Central America and Europe. The illustrated and described collection is from Illinois.
Fruiting Body: Cup-shaped, becoming flattened with age; 2-5 mm across; without a stem.
Upper Surface: Bright orange when fresh, fading to brownish orange; bald.
Undersurface: Orange to pale orange; bald.
Flesh: Orangish; brittle.
Odor: Not distinctive.
Microscopic Features: Spores 6-10 x 3.5-5 m (without ornamentation); ornamentation as a well-developed reticulum 1-2 m high; developing polar apiculi 1-2.5 m long; smooth and ellipsoid before maturity; hyaline in KOH; yellowish in Melzer's. Asci 100-125 m long; 8-spored; tips inamyloid. Paraphyses 90-125 x 2-4 m; filiform below subclavate, straight or slightly curved apices; septate; smooth; with orangish contents in KOH; hyaline in Melzer's.
Strobilomyces confusus
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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with oaks; common; summer and fall; widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois.
Cap: 3-10 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex; dry; covered with small, erect, fibrillose, black scales over a whitish to grayish ground color; the scales 1-3 mm wide at the base; the margin hung with remnants of a whitish to grayish partial veil.
Pore Surface: Whitish, becoming gray; bruising reddish gray, then dark brown to black; pores circular to angular, 1-3 per mm; tubes to 2 cm deep.
Stem: 4-10 cm long; 0.5-2 cm thick; more or less equal; whitish to grayish and reticulate near the apex; dark gray to black and shaggy below; at first covered with a sheathing, grayish partial veil, but soon with merely an ephemeral ring or ring zone; solid; base covered with dense, gray mycelium.
Flesh: Whitish throughout, turning reddish when sliced, then slowly red to dark red and eventually nearly black.
Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.
Chemical Reactions: Ammonia negative to slightly bluish on cap; negative to yellowish on flesh. KOH dark red on cap; orangish on flesh. Iron salts negative to bluish on cap; dark bluish on flesh.
Spore Print: Black.
Microscopic Features: Spores 9-12 x 7-12 (including ornamentation); globose to subglobose; with ornamentation of spines and occasional short ridges; not reticulate; brown in KOH. Pleurocystidia clavate to fusoid-ventricose; to about 60 x 25 ; with brown contents in KOH. Pileipellis a trichoderm with cylindric to clavate terminal elements.
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Bulgaria inquinans
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Ecology: Saprobic on decaying oak and tanoak sticks and logs (also sometimes reported on the wood of birches or elms); growing alone, gregariously, or (more commonly) in clusters; late summer and fall (over winter in warm climates); widely distributed in North America.
Fruiting Body: Cup- or top-shaped at first, becoming flattened or convex; 1-5 cm across; outer surface brown to black, finely to prominently hairy or scaly (often smoother and blacker with age); upper surface black, shiny, and smooth; flesh rubbery to gelatinous; stem absent or merely a pinched-off extension.
Microscopic Features: Spores 9-17 x 6-7 ; elliptical to somewhat lemon-shaped; smooth. Asci up to about 150 long; 8-spored, with the top 4 spores dark brown and uniguttulate in KOH and the bottom 4 spores poorly developed, multiguttulate, and hyaline. Paraphyses filiform.
Russula ventricosipes
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Ecology: Presumably mycorrhizal, since it is a Russula--but its odd habitat does raise questions. Growing alone or gregariously in sand dunes; usually with pine trees in the vicinity; along the Great Lakes and the East Coast; summer and fall.
Cap: 4.5-13 cm; convex with a tucked-under margin when young, becoming broadly convex to flat with a shallow depression; slimy when wet and fresh (with sand "glued" to the surface), but soon dry; covered with a felty, pinkish to orangish layer when young, but soon becoming smooth overall, or remaining felty along the margin; yellowish brown, sometimes with orangish shades; the margin lined at maturity; the skin peeling away easily from the margin, sometimes beyond halfway to the center.
Gills: Attached or pulling away from the stem; close; sometimes forked near the stem; yellowish white, developing orangish or reddish edges; often spotting or discoloring yellowish brown to brownish.
Stem: 2-10 cm long; 1.5-5 cm thick; often swollen in the middle; stuffed and thick; sometimes slightly wrinkled lengthwise; white underneath a layer of reddish to brownish red scurf that begins at the base and may extend nearly to the apex.
Flesh: Whitish; becoming slowly pale yellowish on exposure or with age.
Odor and Taste: Odor weakly to moderately reminiscent of maraschino cherries, almonds, or benzaldehyde; taste acrid.
Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface negative.
Spore Print: Creamy.
Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 4.5-6 ; broadly elliptical to lacrymoid; with very tiny warts projecting less than .5 (appearing nearly smooth even with oil immersion); connecting lines rare and scattered. Pileipellis an interwoven cutis/trichoderm; clearly defined pileocystidia absent, but some hyphal tips cystidioid, with granular, sulphovanillin-positive contents.
Leucoagaricus brunnescens
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Ecology: Saprobic, growing alone, scattered or gregariously in both hardwood and conifer forests; late summer and fall; apparently widely distributed in North America from the Great Plains eastward (also recorded a few times by A. H. Smith in California). The illustrated and described collection is from Missouri.
Cap: 2.5-7 cm across; convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat--but retaining a shallow central bump; dry; scaly overall, with radiating, appressed, fibrillose, brown to pinkish brown scales over a whitish to pale tan ground color; turning red to orange-red, then slowly brown, where bruised.
Gills: Free from the stem; close or crowded; short-gills infrequent; creamy white; staining orangish and eventually brown.
Stem: 3-5 cm long; about 0.5 cm thick; equal or slightly to moderately club-shaped; hairy; whitish at first, but soon bruising and discoloring red, then brown; with a flimsy, sheathing, collapsing ring that is initially white but becomes stained brown; basal mycelium white.
Flesh: White throughout; staining slowly reddish when sliced.
Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.
Chemical Reactions: Not recorded (oops), but possibly interesting given the affinities to other species; the reaction of the cap and gills to ammonia should be documented.
Dried Specimens: Cap, stem, and gills turn dark brown when dried for the herbarium.
Spore Print: White.
Microscopic Features: Spores 7-9 x 3.5-4.5 ; ellipsoid to subamygdaliform; smooth; thick-walled; hyaline in KOH; yellowish to dull golden in Melzer's. Cheilocystidia 25-50 x 7.5-10 ; clavate, subclavate, widely cylindric, or somewhat irregular; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Pleurocystidia not found. Pileipellis a a tangle of hyphae 5-15 wide, smooth, brownish to brown in KOH, septate; terminal cells cylindric with rounded or subclavate apices. Clamp connections not found.
Hapalopilus nidulans
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Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or in small groups on decaying logs and sticks; on hardwood debris in the east, or conifer wood in the southwest; causing a white rot; spring to fall, or over winter in warmer climates; widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains, and occasionally reported in the southwest and Pacific Northwest. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois.
Cap: 2.5-7 cm across; 1-3 cm deep; irregularly semicircular or kidney-shaped; convex; bald or finely suedelike; wrinkled in places; evenly dull orange to dull orangish cinnamon; when fresh and growing with a paler, yellowish to whitish margin.
Pore Surface: Dull orangish brown; not bruising, or bruising slightly darker; with a sterile marginal band; with 2-3 angular pores per mm; tubes 2-4 mm deep.
Stem: Absent.
Flesh: Dull orangish brown or paler; watery and soft at first, but later quite tough and hard; not changing when sliced.
Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.
Chemical Reactions: KOH bright purple to lilac on all parts.
Spore Print: White.
Microscopic Features: Spores 2.5-3.5 x 1.5-2.5 m; ellipsoid; smooth; inamyloid; hyaline in KOH. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Setae, cystidia not found. Hyphal system monomitic, with conspicuous clamp connections.
Imleria pallida
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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with oaks; growing scattered or gregariously; summer and fall; widely distributed and common in North America east of the Rocky Mountains; also recorded from Central America. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, and Ohio.
Cap: 3-10 cm across; convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; dry; very finely suedelike when fresh and young, but soon more or less bald and kid-leathery; sometimes becoming cracked in age; pale grayish brown; the margin often with a very tiny overhanging sterile portion.
Pore Surface: Whitish when very young, becoming pale dull yellow, then olive yellow and, eventually, dark olive brown; bruising dull blue, or sometimes not bruising; 1-2 xerocomoid pores per mm at maturity; tubes to 1 cm deep.
Stem: 3-12 cm long; 0.5-2 cm thick; more or less equal; bald; not reticulate; whitish to brownish, becoming more brownish with age, especially toward the base; sometimes flushed with red near the apex or base; basal mycelium white.
Flesh: White when fresh, but often becoming yellowish in older specimens; unchanging when sliced, or changing to sky blue or darker blue (sometimes slowly and erratically)—or pinkish to, in the stem base, red.
Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive; taste mildly soapy or bitterish.
Chemical Reactions: Ammonia flashing bluish to purplish, then quickly resolving to negative on cap surface; negative or faintly greenish on flesh. KOH dark brownish orange to pale orange on cap surface; negative to orange on flesh. Iron salts blue-green on cap surface; negative to pale blue-green on flesh.
Spore Print: Brown with a hint of olive.
Microscopic Features: Spores 10-16 x 4-5 m; boletoid-fusiform; smooth; yellowish in KOH. Basidia 20-30 x 5-10 m; 4-sterigmate. Hymenial cystidia 28-40 x 6-8 m; lageniform to fusiform; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH, or occasionally with golden-globular contents. Pileipellis a collapsing trichoderm; elements 3-8 m wide, smooth, hyaline to faintly brownish in KOH; terminal cells cylindric with rounded apices.
Mycena leptocephala
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Ecology: Saprobic on the debris of conifers; growing scattered to gregariously on the ground; spring and fall (or over winter in warmer climates); widely distributed in North America.
Cap: 1-4 cm; conical when young, becoming broadly conical, convex, or broadly bell-shaped; moist; with a whitish bloom when young, but soon bald; black or dark grayish brown when young, fading somewhat to grayish brown or gray with age; the margin faintly lined at first, later becoming more strongly lined.
Gills: Attached to the stem by a tooth; nearly distant; whitish or pale grayish.
Stem: 3-7 cm long; 1-3 mm thick; fragile; equal; hollow; with a whitish bloom at first, but soon bald; black to dark brown at first, becoming grayish or brownish; basal mycelium whitish.
Flesh: Insubstantial; pallid or grayish.
Odor and Taste: Odor strongly bleachlike; taste acidic and unpleasant.
Spore Print: White.
Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 4-6 ; weakly to moderately amyloid; elliptical; smooth. Basidia usually 4-spored. Cheilocystidia abundant; 30-45 long; fusoid-ventricose, subcylindric, or clavate, without digitate projections. Pleurocystidia scattered or sometimes absent; similar to cheilocystidia. Pileipellis a cutis; uppermost elements digitate with short rod-like projections.
Exidia glandulosa
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Ecology: Saprobic; growing on recently fallen hardwood sticks and branches (especially on the wood of oaks); commonly encountered in most areas in spring and again in fall, but not infrequently appearing during summer cold spells or winter warm spells; widely distributed in North America.
Fruiting Body: Individual fruiting bodies are 1-2 cm across, but are typically fused into large patches (often over 50 cm long); gelatinous; lobed and brainlike; reddish black to black; surface smooth or slightly rough.
Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.
Spore Print: White.
Microscopic Features: Spores 10-16 x 3-5 ; sausage-shaped; smooth. Basidia longitudinally septate (cruciate), with sterigmata to 65 long. Clamp connections present.
The panther cap is an uncommon mushroom, found in both deciduous, especially beech and, less frequently, coniferous woodland.
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Hypsizygus tessulatus
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Ecology: Saprobic; usually growing in clusters of two or three; widely distributed in eastern and northern North America, and sometimes reported from the Rocky Mountains and the West Coast; fall. The illustrated and described collections are from Michigan and Québec.
Cap: 4-8 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex with a slightly inrolled margin; dry; bald; whitish to buff or very pale tan; sometimes "tessulated" with watery spots when fresh and young.
Gills: Attached to the stem; close; short-gills frequent; whitish; not bruising.
Stem: 3-8 cm long, 1-2 cm thick; equal or slightly club-shaped; dry; bald or very finely silky; whitish to very pale tan.
Flesh: Firm; white; unchanging when sliced.
Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive, or slightly mealy; taste not distinctive.
Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface negative.
Spore Print: White to buff.
Microscopic Features: Spores 4-5 m; subglobose; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Lamellar trama parallel. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Hymenial cystidia not found. Pileipellis a cutis; elements 2-4 m wide, often clamped, smooth, hyaline in KOH.
New study by Chan et al. reveals the evolutionary dynamics of self-splicing introns in mitochondrial genomes of Epichloë fungi. Results support rapid intron loss and evolution of homing suppressors.