When: 2013-08-07
Collection location: Lincoln Ridge Park, Kenton Co, Kentucky, USA [Click for map]
Notes:
These were growing on a rotting log, in a rather open area of woods alongside a trail. They grew in small clusters of 3-6 stipes growing from a common base. No odor. The stipes are finely scaly, with tiny white scales on the upper 2/3, dark brown scales on the lower third of some of them. The largest cap was 3 cm diameter. The younger caps had veil remnants around the edges but none of them had an annulus.
Spore print purplish-very dark brown. Spore size 7-8 × 4.5-5 microns.
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| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 4.35 | 1 | (Rocky Houghtby) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 4.58 | 1 | (eddeeee) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
1.77 | 59.16% | |||||||
| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 7.96 | 2 | (mlierl,eddeeee) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 4.35 | 1 | (Rocky Houghtby) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
2.12 | 70.70% | |||||||
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I thought this might be a psathyrella, but the only psathyrellas with scaly caps, growing in clustes on logs that I could find in the guild books are P. caputmedusae (grows only in Pacific Northwest, and the spores are larger) and P. maculata, which also grows in the Pacific Northwest.
Does anyone know of a similar species that grows in Kentucky / Ohio?
Created: 2013-08-07 20:35:07 CDT (-0500)
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are rather difficult to identify from just macro and spores, cystidia can help a lot, also laarger pictures… Check out Smith’s Psathyrella book if you want to make a serious attempt at identifying these.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/...