Gymnopilus liquiritiae (?)- IMG-56
Caps - 2 1/8 - 3 1/4 cm wide, plane to shallowly depressed with wavy margins. Glabrous, sublubricous,
bright tawny-orange at disc becoming yellow at margins. Context yellowish. Margins not striate.
Gills - Adnate, very crowded, shallow. Straw yellow bruising darker when rubbed. Edges entire. Four
tiers of lamellulae.
Stipe - 4-6 cm long and 3-4 mm thick. Pale lemon yellow at apex becoming dingy ochre-yellow below.
Equal, curved, becoming 'lumpy' near base. Stuffed at first becoming hollow in age. Base with
some white tomentum and sparse rusty velar shards.
Odor - Mild.
Taste - Mildly bitter.
Spores - Rusty-orange, dextrinoid.
Habitat - Gregarious on a conifer stick at the Stimpson Family Preserve on Sept. 22, 2019.
Spores - Ellipsoid, thick-walled, verrucose; 8-10 x 5-6.1 microns. Q = 1,56.
Basidia - Clavate, 4-spored, 25-29 x 6-8.5 microns.
Cheilocystidia - Flexuous clavate at 20-29 x 7 microns and also filamentous capitate at 40 x 6 microns.
Pleurocystidia - Also filamentous - capitate. Rare.
Pileipellis - A cutis of thin radially parallel hyphae.
Pileal Trama - Also of parallel hyphae a bit wider than the pileipellis hyphae.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/63110710
Fungee V
Gymnopilus "sp-IN03"
Going with this for now because there are other viable options.
DNA ITS
Gymnopilus flavidellus
Gymnopilus flavidellus
a member of Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies Order Agaricales
Gymnopilus "sp-IN03" is Gymnopilus flavidellus. Confirmed by sequence we obtained (with colleague Allison Walker from Acadia University) from a Hesler-authenticated collection (see Hesler 1969, North American Species of Gymnopilus, Mycologia Memoir No. 3); all sequences of "sp-IN03" we've examined cluster with the sequence from this authenticated collection of G. flavidellus.
Agaricineae 1. Hemlock wood chips. Average spore size 8.5 x 5 microns.
A small Gymnopilus from the G. sapineus group . It appears abundant and common.
The caps on these are smooth, yellow-orange, and are small. Mostly at ground level on conifer material, douglas fir and similar.
Cap 3.5 cms., yellow/orange/red/brown. Smooth, and convex.
Gills, adnate, crowded to close, fairly narrow, yellow to orange/brown.
Taste bitter.
Spores verrucose, reddish, elliptical, oval, and almond. (7.0-9.0) x (5.0-5.7)
Pleurocystidia capitate about 30 x 7;
basidia 24 x 6.5.
GenBank ITS PP291716.1
Growing on decorticated stump of Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus). Odor sweet and anise-like.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179445410 - on Quercus rubra
Observation 179448541 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179451484 - on Betula papyrifera
Observation 179453842 - on Tsuga canadensis
Observation 179460097 - on Acer rubrum
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra
Saprobic. On decorticated Red Oak (Quercus rubra) branch and immediately adjacent leaf litter. Odor indistinct.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179422751 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179448541 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179451484 - on Betula papyrifera
Observation 179453842 - on Tsuga canadensis
Observation 179460097 - on Acer rubrum
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra
Growing from decorticated White Pine (Pinus strobus) log. Odor slightly vegetal / indistinct.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179422751 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179445410 - on Quercus rubra
Observation 179451484 - on Betula papyrifera
Observation 179453842 - on Tsuga canadensis
Observation 179460097 - on Acer rubrum
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra
On well rotted Paper Birch (Betula papyrifera) log. Odor faint, lightly sweet. Stem pliant.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179422751 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179445410 - on Quercus rubra
Observation 179448541 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179453842 - on Tsuga canadensis
Observation 179460097 - on Acer rubrum
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra
Growing from old wound at base of living Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). Some showing clustered/cespitose growth habit. Odor slightly grassy / vegetal.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179422751 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179445410 - on Quercus rubra
Observation 179448541 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179451484 - on Betula papyrifera
Observation 179460097 - on Acer rubrum
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra
On well decayed Red Maple (Acer Rubrum) stump. Growing singly. Odor sweet, anise-like.
Other Observations of Provisional Species Name: Gymnopilus "sp-IN03".
Associated collections from various substrates within 250 m:
Observation 179422751 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179445410 - on Quercus rubra
Observation 179448541 - on Pinus strobus
Observation 179451484 - on Betula papyrifera
Observation 179453842 - on Tsuga canadensis
Observation 179463620 - on Quercus rubra