Chrysomphalina     Genus



Cortinarius husseyiKey to Gilled Mushrooms     Key
This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.



TricholomaAgaricales     Order
Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)



Amanita onustaWhite Spored     Suborder
Spore print "light-colored": white or buff, sometimes tinged with pink or tan. Greenish and (except for the Russulales) yellow spore prints also go here
Stalk fibrous, not fracturing like a piece of chalk



TricholomataceaeTricholomataceae     Family
None of the special features distinguishing the other white-spored genera:
Gills not free, as in the Lepiotas and Amanitas
Basidia not extra-long, as in the Hygrophoraceae
Spores smooth, except for Lentinellus



HygrocybeLignicolous Trich     Subfamily
Growing on trees or dead wood, leaves, or sticks, or organic debris, often in moss


Armillaria tabescensNormal LignoTrich     Tribe
Shaped like a “normal mushroom”
Small and fragile to medium-sized, except for one large, grey-capped species


Small Ligno Trich     Subtribe
Fruiting body small: cap up to 1 1/4" across (and most clearly smaller than that)


Omphalina ericetorumOmphalinoids     SemiTribe
Mature fruiting body with an omphalos, never bell-shaped or conical. Never even flat except when very young.
Usually more colorful than the other choices
Often growing in or among a lichen


Chrysomphalina     Genus     

Diagnosis


Narrow down your identification:


Chrysomphalina chrysophylla
Spore print yellow
Cap up to 1 1/2" across, with a shallow omphalos until old, margin incurved; brownish with minute scales or hairs
Gills orange-yellow
Often with a cushion of white mycelium surrounding the base of the stalk


Lookalikes:



Omphalina ectypoides
  • Cap 1- 2 1/2" across, various shades of yellow to brown, at first with minute dark scales or hairs
  • Not striate; margin wavy but not scalloped



 

 


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