Pacific Forestry Centre's Forest Pathology Herbarium

DAVFP: 30449

Fungus name: Lepiota clypeolaria (Bull.:Fr.) P. Kumm.

Substrate: Soil and Duff

Year of collection (y-m-d): 1998-10-23

Map coordinates: 49.5510°N, -119.5611°W

Collector: Ginns, J.; Ginns, A.

Determiner: Ginns, J.

Collection location: S of Turnbull Creek, E of Sutherland Rd., Penticton, B.C.

Remarks: Found among mosses and Sleginella on face of rocky bluff. Cap plane, 4.5 cm diam., dry, light buff but disk near cinnamon buff, scurfy. Stipe cyl, slightly broader below, 9 mm diam. at mid point, core hollow but with some cottony stuffing. Flesh white to pale grey white, 4 mm thick. Odour nil, not tasted. Gills white, free, 4.5mm deep. When fresh, spore print white with buff for ca 10 mm in from edge. Spore wall thin, hyaline, smooth.

Gene bank accession data: None

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