Sowerbyella rhenana (Fuckel) J. Moravec
stalked orange peel fungus
Pyronemataceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
stalked orange peel fungus
Pyronemataceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Features include a stemmed cup that is orange to yellow-orange with pale orange to white underside and stem, and guttulate reticulate spores that lack an apiculus. (Castellano).
Microscopic:
spores 18-23.6(26.3) x 9-11.8 microns (not including ornamentation), "ornamented with a reticulum, the meshes 1.5 to 4 microns broad, mostly 6-sided, ridges to 1.5 microns tall, apiculus absent", guttulate; asci 8-spored, thin-walled; paraphyses "curved or straight, containing orange granules, fleetingly green when mounted in Melzer''s reagent", (Castellano), spores 20-23 x 11-13 microns, elliptic, coarsely reticulate at maturity, (Arora)
Notes:
It is found in WA, ID, CA and known from Europe and Japan, (Castellano). There are collections from OR deposited at Oregon State University. It was photographed by Kem Luther on Vancouver Island in BC.
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Neottiella rutilans is a similar moss-inhabiting species with slightly larger spores and longer hairs on the underside, (Arora).Habitat
scattered to gregarious or cespitose in duff of moist, relatively undisturbed, older coniferous forests, (Castellano), gregarious, often in small clusters, on ground or moss in woods (usually under conifers), (Arora)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Aleuria rhenana Fuckel
Fomes tinctorius Ellis & Everh.