Helvella latispora Boud.
no common name
Helvellaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Helvellaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Summary:
{See also Elfin Saddle Table.} Features include 1) a pale gray-brown cap that is irregularly lobed to 2-lobed and saddle-shaped, the margin inrolled at first, becoming reflexed [bent down] when mature, 2) a cap underside that is finely pubescent to pubescent [downy], and 3) a solid white stem that is round in cross-section or shallowly fluted at the base. The description is derived from Abbott(1).
Microscopic:
spores (16.5)18.6-19.9(20.8) x (10.9)11.4-12.4 microns, broadly elliptic, smooth, colorless, with one droplet; asci 290-330 x 13.3-15.6 microns; paraphyses 5.1-8.6 microns wide at tip, clavate, widening gradually to tip, colorless, contents finely granular
Notes:
Collections were examined from ID, AB, MB, ON, IA, MI, France, Norway, and United Kingdom, (Abbott(1)). There is a collection from BC as Helvella stevensii Peck at the Pacific Forestry Center.
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Helvella compressa is darker in the color of the upper surface, the underside is villose, and the RANGE of collections examined only overlaps in ID, H. compressa being the western species, (Abbott). Helvella albella is separable by color, and the cap margin is less strongly rolled over the upper surface in initial stages, (Abbott). Helvella elastica has its cap margin bent down (rather than inrolled upward initially), the stem is hollow, and the underside is bald, (Abbott).Habitat
gregarious on soil or litter in hardwood, mixed, or coniferous woods, from June 27 in ID to August 29 in MB
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Paxina recurvum Snyder
Peziza melaleucoides Seaver