In mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest: Pseudotsuga menziesii, Sequoia sempervirens, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, with Vaccinium ovatum and Gaultheria shallon dominant understory
Growing next to road in disturbed soils on edge of forest near Iris douglasiana
White to beige, smooth pileus with some remnant partial veil tissue on margin, slightly umbonate. White fibrous stipe. Pileus white to cream colored when young, tuning light brown to orange/brown in age.
Smell indistinct
Taste mild
No KOH
Bright green/yellow fluorescence on all parts. Specifically yellow on base of stipe
White, umbonate cap,
Beige gills,
White stipe stipe with bulbous base,
White UV on gills,
Indistinct odor,
At base of bay Laurel near creek
Asci IKI-
Spores spherical, hyaline, smooth.
Dark brown pezizoid cups growing from bare soil among Adenostoma fasciculatum near live oaks. Chocolate brown hymenium, mostly concave with wrinkles but splitting often at the edges. Margin and underside concolorous, dark and bumpy, not stipitate, widely centrally attached, more gray towards the attachment point. KOH-, UV-
Collected from a sandy mossy berm next to a road at SOMA camp.
Black teleomorph. Ascospores 16 per ascus, hyaline, minutely warted, ovate, 6.7 x 4.8 µm. Ascus 115 µm.
Origin location unknown. //
Photograph and sample taken from the 2024 Fungus Fair in Santa Cruz.
Species observations will be backed with a more specific photo linking it with voucher slip.