E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

Cudonia grisea Mains
no common name
Cudoniaceae

Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.

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Species Information

Summary:

Not available
Fruiting body:
1.5-5cm high, fleshy; cap 0.5-1.5cm broad, drab or dark gray; smooth, (Seaver), 1.5-5cm high, fleshy; cap 0.5-1.5cm wide, convex, drab or dark gray, smooth, (Mains), gray to dark grayish brown or fuscous, (Arora)
Stem:
0.3-0.8cm wide, narrower in upper part; brown; smooth, (Seaver), 0.3-0.8cm wide in lower part, narrower in upper part; fuscous; smooth, (Mains)
Microscopic:
spores 18-22 x 1.5-2 microns, acicular [needle-like], colorless; asci reaching length of 70-90 microns and a diameter of 6-8 microns, clavate, narrowed in lower part; paraphyses filiform [thread-like], colorless, curved at the apices, (Seaver), spores 18-22(24) x 1.5-2 microns, acicular [needle-like], 1-celled or rarely 1-septate; asci 70-110 x 6-10 microns, clavate, narrowing below the upper third, attenuated in lower part; paraphyses filiform, strongly curved in upper part, colorless, (Mains)

Habitat / Range

gregarious on rotten conifer wood (Seaver), under conifers, usually in spring, (Arora), gregarious on rotting coniferous wood, (Mains)

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Edibility

See Cudonia circinans

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Species References

Seaver(2), Arora(1), Mains(1)

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