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Species Information
Summary: Also listed in Clubs and Other categories. Features include white, tough, thin-fleshed, dry fruitbodies with kidney-shaped to funnel-shaped or spatula-shaped cap, often with convoluted margins, smooth or almost smooth spore-bearing surface underneath, and upright lateral stem.
Stereopsis humphreyi is found at least in BC, WA, and OR, (Trudell). The type was from WA (Burt(9)).
Cap: single or rarely 2 or 3 per stem, 0.6-2.9cm wide, becoming kidney-shaped to funnel-shaped, cleft on one side to the stem, often with convoluted (markedly wavy) margins, dull white on upper surface, dry, silky when young, nearly smooth to wrinkled, later most becoming obscurely zoned-ridged and often minutely floccose scaly or rough towards stem, (Redhead), "sometimes looking like a kitchen spatula and at other times like a small fleshless chanterelle", (Trudell)
Flesh: membranous and soft, (Redhead)
Underside: decurrent, nearly smooth but sometimes when old with low radiating wrinkles or more prominent furrows, creamy white, demarcated from stem, (Redhead)
Stem: 1-3cm x 0.1-0.3cm, stuffed to hollow, tough, pliant; white (but when old faintly cinnamon), velvety, a few bald except at base, base with hairs, (Redhead)
Microscopic: spores 6.5-9 x 3.5-5.5 microns, narrowly to broadly oval to elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, prominent oblique apiculus, walls thin to pronounced, mostly with one droplet; basidia (3-)4-spored, 36-49 x 4-5.2 microns, narrowly clavate, with basal clamp connection; cystidia none; clamp connections present, (Redhead)
Habitat / Range
gregarious on mossy needle beds, cones, twigs, fern fronds, and mosses, in coniferous forest, (Redhead), on cones and other litter of conifers, especially Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce), in rather wet areas, (Trudell)
