beginning's Identifications

Description: cap is 1-2cm in width, yellow-brown to tan with with a darker center (pale yellow from margins inward). The stipe measures between 5-7 cm long, has a white to dirty-pale color from base up, and has a bare/smooth texture. Gills are dark brown-black in color, closely spaced, and almost-free (adnexed) from stipe. Found growing in large cluster off of a fallen deciduous tree.

• Key morphological features:

  1) Gills - crowded gills, adnexed attachment to stipe, dark brown to black in color.
  2) Cap - ovoid, conicle, or campanulate (bell shaped), sometimes with umbo. surface is smooth and has small granules.
  
  3) Cap Margin: grooved, striated almost to center of cap, splitting towards outer edges in older specimens
  4) Stipe/stem: bare, smooth, to finely hairy texture; fibrous and brittle, hollow, and white to dirty-pale color from base up
  5) Spores print: black

• Habitat & growth habit: growing in large cluster from a fallen deciduous/hardwood tree on a bed of moss. Surrounding environment included birch trees, salmon berry plants, ferns, and various other shrubs. Mostly deciduous forest with some surrounding conifer trees.