sigridjakob's Identifications

Found in a mixed woods swamp growing in mud.

Cap smooth, subrimose, and with vail materiel on the margin.

Spores irregular and nodulose; avg 9.3um long.

Cheilo and pleurocystida present, some with horns or gelatinous elements.

Cap elements made of horizontal, septate hyphae.

Growing on dead leaf stems of dune grass.

Cap surface dry, convex at first becoming plane-convex with margin slightly incurled in older specimens, grey-blue with whitish margin, gills visible through cap with ruffled surface, bracket-like; gills widely spaced, attached, with scalloped gills underneath cap surface, occasionally branching into each other, whitish grey; rudimentary stipe visible with fuzz at base.

KOH brown becoming reddish; UV light purple in spots on surface of cap; odor mild; taste slightly sour; cap 2mm-1.5cm

Growing in sandy dunes in grass thatch.

Cap hygrophaneous, viscid, convex at first becoming plane-convex with incurled margin, brownish at first with white ring towards edge developing in older specimens, darker towards the center; gills white, decurrent, close, lamellae present; stipe stuffed, slightly viscid, larger towards base with slightly tapering base, brownish towards the gills and becoming white near base.

KOH nonreactive; UV reactive (context yellow, stipe yellow); odor similar to almond extract; taste indistinct; caps 2.5cm to larger x height 4.5cm to larger (I collected samples that were smaller so the size is fairly insignificant)