This should be Xerocomus spadiceus var gracilis. No staining, pores split when cut, found in CT. Deep pores, red-brown tufts onpale yellow stipe.
Possibly. Interior gelatinous, very sticky. Spores light brown, smooth walled. Growing in leaf litter, cypress, white oak, holly, beech, sourwood, tupelo, magnolia. White rhizomorphs, fuzzy ball shaped exterior.
Growing on a leaf in a running stream. Two leaves infected. Leaves of Fagus, I believe.
interesting Mycenoid, never seen anything quite like it. The fruit bodies had a slight blue/green coloration to the cap and a stipe transitioning to a yellowish hue at the stipe base
Stumped and delighted. What are these CONFECTIONS? The largest fruitbodies were 2mm to 2.5mm wide.
Note that the upper surface of the pileus has a dingy quality with fine hairs on top, At first glance they appear not to be stipitate, but there is clearly a stipe on many fruit bodies.
Also see obs fields
Specimen lost. But tissue was collected for sequencing.
Substrate: Decaying ʻŌhiʻa leaf.
Size: fruit-1.5 cm
Uncertain on ID. Found growing on wood near Hoopii Falls in Kapa'a Kauai
On ground, and well decayed wood, mixed woods.