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Species Information
Summary: Also listed in Veined category. Guepinia helvelloides is orange, gelatinous, flabby or rubbery, spatula-shaped to funnel-shaped (usually indented or split at one side), sometimes like a calla lily, growing on the ground or on rotten wood.
The distribution includes BC, OR, WA, ID, and also MB, NS, ON, PQ, CA, MI, NY, (Ginns). It is common in the Pacific Northwest and widely distributed in North America, (Phillips). Distribution includes also Europe, Asia, and Africa, (Breitenbach), Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Austria, (Lowy(2)), Guatemala (Lowy(3)), Estonia, Latvia, and Russia, (Raitviir).
Fruiting body: 2-8(18)cm high, "spatula-shaped to somewhat funnel-shaped, but usually indented or split down one side", flabby or rubbery, with a cap and stem, cap 1-7(10)cm wide, "pale to deep rosy-pink to reddish orange, apricot, or salmon-colored; surface more or less smooth, margin often wavy", underside colored like cap or paler, smooth to faintly veined or coarsely wrinkled; flesh rubbery to somewhat gelatinous; stem 1-6cm long, off-center or lateral, continuous with cap and of same color and texture, or the base whitish, (Arora), 2.5-10cm tall, 4-6cm wide, "funnel-shaped or spoon-shaped with a lobed margin; translucent pinkish white to deep rose or apricot; smooth or slightly wrinkled"; flesh firm-gelatinous; stem short, off-center, (Phillips), 3-10cm tall and 2-5cm wide, ear-shaped to conic, elongated and incised on one side, tapering to stem-like base which is often whitish, margin usually flaring outward, flesh elastic, gelatinous; orange-pink to salmon-red or brown-red; "inner surface smooth and dull, sometimes whitish-pruinose, outer surface smooth, often wrinkled-veined in age, hymenium on upper part of outer surface", (Breitenbach), spore deposit white (Buczacki)
Microscopic: spores 10-12 x 4-5 microns, oblong to elliptic, spore deposit white, (Phillips), spores 9-12(16) x 4-6.5 microns, oblong-elliptic, smooth, (Arora), spores 9.5-11 x 5.5-6 microns, "irregularly elliptic, somewhat flattened on one side, with distinct apiculus, smooth", inamyloid, colorless; hypobasidia 14-20 x 10-11 microns, oval, longitudinally septate, with 2-4 epibasidia; hyphae 1-3 microns wide, septa with clamp connections, gelatinized, (Breitenbach), spores form on undersurface (Lincoff)
Habitat / Range
on rotting wood or on the ground under conifers, (Phillips), "solitary to crowded-cespitose, also in rows or clusters, in damp shady places on path and street sides, as well as under shrubbery and in forests, commonly on old wood-processing places, on the soil, but usually in association with buried rotten wood, prefers limy soils", (Breitenbach), in damp ground on rotting wood, often under Douglas fir, (Ammirati), on conifers: needles and rotten wood, very rotten wood, litter, saprophytic on ground, (Ginns), single or more commonly crowded-cespitose in duff, soil and rotten wood under conifers, late summer and fall, rarely spring, (Castellano)
