Pacific Forestry Centre's Forest Pathology Herbarium

DAVFP: 29938

Fungus name: Schenella simplex T.Macbr.

Substrate: Soil, disturbed

Year of collection (y-m-d): 1999-10-13

Map coordinates: 49.5552°N, -119.5630°W

Collector: Ginns, J.

Determiner: Ginns, J.

Collection location: 200 m S of Turnbull Creek, S end of flat above water intake, Naramata, B.C.

Remarks: Found uprooted on hardpacked trail in second-growth stand of 80% Douglas-fir, 20% Ponderosa pine. Rind firm, 4 mm thick, pallid, crisp with paper-thin grey inner layer which surrounds capillitium; this layer is loose from rind. Capillitium black, stringy, flexible. Spore mass black. Odour strong, acrid, pungent, unfamiliar. Carp 4 cm diameter, pallid. No collumella. Epidermis grey in patches, paper-thin. Hole in carp and scrapings on exterior by squirrel?

Gene bank accession data: None

Sporocarp Description: None