Summary:
Features include 1) a small, conic-bellshaped, umbonate cap that is hygrophanous orange-tawny, finely fringed on the margin with white, 2) narrow argillaceous to ochraceous gills, 3) a weakly bulbose stem streaked white on a brownish background, 4) iodoform odor, 5) growth under conifers in damp areas, and 6) microscopic characters. The description is derived from Gerault(1).
DNA sequencing indicates presence in BC according to Harrower(1)), although there is still some lack of clarity about the relationship between C. acutus and C. acutovelatus.
Cap:
1.5-2cm across, conic to conic-campanulate with a pointed umbo, thin and membranous; hygrophanous, orangish tawny, drying to beige or milky coffee color; with silky fibrils on drying, margin finely fringed with white
Flesh:
whitish, brownish in the stem
Gills:
fairly well-spaced, narrow (0.15cm), argillaceous, chamois-ochraceous; edges eroded
Stem:
3-5cm x 0.1-0.2cm, flexuous, weakly bulbose; streaked white on a brownish background, white at the base; silky-fibrillose
Odor:
iodoform
Microscopic spores:
8-11 x 5-6 microns, elliptic to oval, densely and finely verrucose; cheilocystidia absent
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