Young fruiting bodies beneath Douglas fir.
Fruiting bodies orange brown throughout.
Cap: densely matted/fibrillose.
Gills: vibrant orange(unique for Inocybe).
Stem: scaly and tinged pinkish where handled. Pruinose at apex. Stem base is white, not bulbous.
Stem context: vibrant carrot orange.
Odor: fishy metallic with slightly spermatic back note.
Harvested 5 specimens.
Removed gill tissue from a single specimen and mounted on slide in 3% KOH.
Spore printed cap directly on a separate slide for spore print.
MICROSCOPY: from gill mount.
Cheilocystidia: Metuloid, club shaped. Encrusted with granules at apex(golden yellow encrustations in KOH).
Spores: narrowly elliptic to ovoid, smooth, thick walled, Medium in size.
Basidia: only 4 sterigmate analyzed.
Spore print(slide#2): dull brown/grayish brown.
Dehydrated all specimens thoroughly and bagged for herbarium collection/genetic record.
Gills and stem context drying vibrant orange after full dehydration.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation below-
Co-located with a Pyrenomycete
Three fungi on a dead Douglas fir
These are the PINKEST Contumyces rosellus I’ve ever seen, and are lacking the marginate gills I’m used to seeing….so not sure…very open to other ids!