When: 2015-08-04
Collection location: Camp Cedar, Casco, Maine, USA [Click for map]
Who: Django Grootmyers (Heelsplitter)
Notes:
Single basidiocarp growing among hardwood duff, hardwood leaf litter and pine needle litter near Fagus grandifolia, Quercus sect. Lobatae, Betula papyrifera, Pinus strobus and Acer saccharum. Cap finely scaly; 1.4 cm wide. Stem white with a bluish base that intensified during drying; 3.2 cm long; stem 0.2 cm wide. Pileipellis with filamentous elements arranged in fascicles perpendicular to the underlying surface.
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| 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. | |||||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 6.20 | 1 | (Heelsplitter) | |||||
| 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) |
0.86 | 28.70% | |||||||
| 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 | ||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 6.20 | 1 | (Heelsplitter) | |||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| 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) |
1.72 | 57.40% | |||||||
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Hi Django,
Yes, I would take a look if you send this over
thanks!
I was unable to locate any pleurocystidia on the the gill fragments I examined. Previously I had looked at a roman aqueduct section. I could look at more features of these but the dried fruiting body is very small and fragile and I don’t want to waste it. If you would be interested in examining this I have been putting together a box of my Pluteus specimens to send to you.
If you still have the specimen give it another try. Morphology of the cystidia go a long way for getting closer to an ID in Pluteus
This may be due to my microscopy skills or lack of them rather than an actual lack of cystidia. They were at least not abundant.
Hi Django,
I think it is worth checking the cystidia on this one. With the bluing of the stipe and the aspect of the pileus this might be Pluteus americanus
The elements of the pileipellis you show are a bit ascending, but I do not think they form a trichoderm/hymeniderm like in section Hispidoderma
Here http://mushroomobserver.org/93725 you can find a great example of what the pileipellis looks like in sect. Hispidoderma. The morphology of the elements is different depending on the species, but that is the general organization of the pileipellis that you find in the group.
Any update?
Also, here is a species list that may lead to a name eventually:
http://mushroomobserver.org/species_list/show_species_list/1341