Base of dead laurel sumac.
Chaparral, under manzanita.
Cap red-orange, granular, with soft texture. Stipe similar color with more yellow to incarnate tones, with distinct white warts near the base, ending in abrupt clavate bulb.
Under chamise, near manzanita.
Cap 3–4 cm diameter, shiny purplish brown, with vellipellis. Fleshy staining slightly reddish. Stipe base swollen. Cortina forming persistent annulus consistently near the base of the stipe.
Odor mild, slightly wet dog.
KOH-
Stipe and gills UV+ blue
Gills UV-
At base of dead tree, possibly chamise.
KOH+ red, quickly darkening.
UV+ green
Small hypogeous gasteroid basidiomata, exterior light peach color, interior light yellow, composed of convoluted hymenium. Spores ellipsoid, rugulose, with small hilar appendage, 14–16 x 10.4–11 μm; walls 1.5–2 μm thick; starting light yellow, becoming brown. Basidia 34 x 9.4 μm; mostly 2-spored.
Partially buried in soil, on shaded slope dominated by manzanita, also with Eriodictyon, Prunus, and Ribes, with Quercus cornelius-mulleri about 20 ft away.
With Arctostaphylos.
Anza Borrego
Chocolate umbonate cap and stipe with white gills,
White latex,
Growing near sitka spruce,
UV,
Indistinct odor
Small golden brown fungi with darkened center and striate cap with pale stipe,
Indistinct odor/taste,
No KOH rxn
Near redwood/big leaf maple/sitka spruce
Growing in disturbed soil next to blacktop,
White UV rxn on cap margin
Bright orange ascos with white hairy margin,
Growing on deadwood,
Near pine,
No UV/odor
Brown mushroom with yellow gills,
Indistinct odor,
Growing near pine,
UV on gills,
Reddish brown KOH
Found by Phil Dekat,
Gray inky with long white stem,
Growing in boggy area
Brown fungi with lighter margin/stipe,
Growing near pine next to creek,
Mild UV on stipe,
Mild and pleasant fruity scent,
No taste,
Indistinct KOH