When: 2007-12-26
Collection location: Buttonwood, south Key Largo, Monroe Co., Florida, USA [Click for map]
Who: Jason Hollinger (pellaea)
Herbarium specimen available

Species Lists:
Mushrooms of Key Largo (39)

Notes: small shelf mushroom scattered in large group on semi-rotten pigeon plum? log
ST: lateral, stubby or nonexistent, white fuzzy
CAP: ~15mm round in outline, v broadly convex, marg curled under, bright pale orangish yellowish, thinly white fibrillose, soft and flabby
VEIL: none
GILL: whitish to creamy, close, radiate from stem, adnate, 2-3mm deep

I have failed repeatedly to get a spore print of this one since it decomposes so rapidly. Normally one can see dark spores on such clean white gills even just using a handlens, so I’m assuming it must have whitish or at least pale spores.

I thought Pleutotopsis longinqua looked promising, but it only occurs in the NW.

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Observation created: Sun Dec 30 10:38:43 -0800 2007
Last modified: Sun Dec 30 10:38:43 -0800 2007
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