When: 2006-12-30
Collection location: Howarth Park, Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., California, USA [Click for map]
Who: Debbie Drechsler (debdrex)
Notes:
These were found in an area of douglas fir and madrone and some oak. The stipe is not viscid. Gills pale yellow. No black, gray or green staining.
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| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
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Hee… hee… this is some splitting. Lumpers put these together, well, there are lumpers and there are lumpers… I’ve been accused of being a splitter separating acutoconica and flavescens. Now I can split autoconica again? I need to look at Largent’s Hygrophorus again, there is like what, 230 species in there?
But when I look at this one, it looks pretty orange to me, not really red. And I’ve seen mixed populations of mostly reddish orange, half orange and yellow, and mostly yellow with reddish orange tip. Then again there is H. punicea, which can be slightly umbonate, red capped, and yellow stiped (is that a word?). Which is another one to split, that kinda overlaps in macro-features…
The lumpers, such as Swiss III or the excellent book by David Boertmann, The Genus Hygrocybe, put them together and the name becomes Hygrocybe persistens. The splitters, such as Largent in Agaricales of California Volume 5: Hygrohporaceae keep them separate and if the pileus is all yellow or orangish when young then it is H. acutoconica. If it has red in the cap when young then it becomes Hygrocybe persistens. In my keys I have it listed as Hygrocybe persistens.
I was wondering the same thing as Doug, and also, if not autoconica, what would make it persistens?
Isn’t this acutoconica from Arora? Or is that an old name, and there is a new one?
Looks like it might be Hygrocybe persistens.