Pacific Forestry Centre's Forest Pathology Herbarium

DAVFP: 30441

Fungus name: Gomphidius glutinosus (Schaeff.:Fr.) Fr.

Substrate: Soil and Duff

Year of collection (y-m-d): 1997-11-11

Map coordinates: 49.5552°N, -119.5630°W

Collector: Ginns, J.

Determiner: Ginns, J.

Collection location: Turnbull Creek, 540 m elev., Naramata, B.C.

Remarks: Under Pseudotsuga menziesii. Cap lilac grey with black spots. Gills decurrent, grey. Flesh white, except bright yellow on interior and exterior of stipe. Veil membraneous where still unbroken, obvious on stipe. No odour. Spore wall thin, hyaline, smooth. Monomitic, hyphae 3 um, thin-walled, simple-septa. Fresh pleurocyst stem 60 u, encrusting sheath finely granular red in 2% KOH. Basidia 4-spored, contents of many small and 1-2 oil drops.

Gene bank accession data: None

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