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

Summary:

Not available

Fruiting body:
5-25cm tall, 0.7-1.5cm wide basally, widening upward to 1-3.5cm, simple, subcylindric to capitate-clavate, apex subacute, obtuse or broadly rounded; "cream pale orange to brown", staining slowly irregularly brown where cut or bruised, staining more conspicuously downwards; smooth, becoming longitudinally rugose to rugulose [wrinkled to finely wrinkled], (Castellano), 5-20cm high, 0.5-1.2cm wide basally, 1-3cm wide apically, simple, initially subcylindric to subfusiform, enlarged upward when old, then clavate to broadly clavate, finally irregularly laterally compressed; initially ''light yellow'' to ''orange white'', "light buff", "pale ochraceous-buff", "pale ochraceous-salmon", "warm buff", "chamois", "light ochraceous-buff" or "cream buff", finally ''light orange'' to ''greyish orange'', "capucine buff", "pale yellow-orange", "cinnamon-buff" or "pinkish cinnamon", (apex the same color), where cut or bruised the surface staining slowly irregularly the same color as the flesh stains, more conspicuously downward; at first smooth, when old longitudinally rugose or rugulose, (Methven(4))

Flesh:
initially solid; white to pallid, "on exposure staining slowly, irregularly brown", (Castellano), "initially solid, becoming soft and spongy upward as the apex enlarges"; white to pallid, on exposure staining slowly irregularly ''brown'' to ''dark brown'', "Verona brown", "Mikado brown", "russet" or "Mars brown", (Methven(4))

Stem:
base round in cross-section, white to pallid where covered, otherwise ''yellowish white'' to ''pale yellow'', "ivory yellow", "cartridge buff", "light buff" or "pale ochraceous-buff", smooth, pruinose; mycelial hyphae interwoven or aggregated into rhizomorphic strands up to 0.1cm wide and white to pallid, (Methven(4))

Chemical Reactions:
tissue dark green in FeCl3; no reaction in KOH, (Methven(4))

Odor:
not distinct (Castellano, Methven(4))

Taste:
not distinctive (Methven(4)), "not distinct or bitter" (Castellano)

Microscopic:
spores 10.5-14 x 6-7.5 microns, broadly elliptic, broadly ovate or amygdaliform [almond-shaped], smooth, inamyloid, colorless to pale yellow, thin-walled, (Castellano), spores 9-13.5 x 5-6.5 microns, broadly ovate to amygdaliform, smooth, inamyloid, pale yellow in KOH, thin-walled, contents multiguttulate and refringent to aguttulate and amorphous; basidia (2-)4-spored, 70-125 x 9.5-14 microns, clavate, clamped, sterigmata 8-12 microns long; leptocystidia scattered and scarcely projecting, 55-85 x 2.5-5 microns, "cylindric to narrowly clavate, at times apically or subapically branched", walls thin and smooth, with uninflated clamp connections, contents amorphous, pale yellow in KOH; hymenium extending over the apex of the fruitbody; subhymenium rudimentary; hyphae of trama 4-12 microns wide, "more or less parallel to longitudinally interwoven basally, more loosely interwoven upward, radially interwoven beneath the subhymenium, uninflated, inflated (-13 microns) or broadly undulate, branched", walls thin or irregularly thickened to 1 microns wide, smooth, contents amorphous, colorless in KOH, clamp connections uninflated or inflated (-16 microns), sometimes medallion or ampulliform, gloeoplerous hyphae 2.5-5 microns wide, "arising from generative hyphae at clamp connections, scattered throughout the trama, more abundant downward, uninflated, inflated (-8 microns) or strangulated, branched", walls thin and smooth, contents subopalescent, yellow in KOH, refractive under phase contrast, clamp connections uninflated or inflated (-12 microns), sometimes medallion or ampulliform, (Methven(4)), spores 9.5-13 x 5.5-7 microns, (Methven(3))

Spore Deposit:
white to pale yellow, (Castellano), white (Methven(4))