Sagaranella tylicolor
No common name
Lyophyllaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
No common name
Lyophyllaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Summary:
Features include 1) a papillate to umbonate, red brown to yellow brown to almost black cap, 2) almost free to emarginate, whitish gills that darken to yellowish or brownish or blackish, 3) a stem that is whitish to brownish or grayish, 4) growth on mushrooms, carcasses, feces, pastures, mosses, or the forest floor, and 5) broadly elliptic to nearly round, spiny spores. The online Species Fungorum, accessed January 28, 2016 and October 20, 2018, gave the current name as Sagaranella tylicolor (Fr.) V. Hofst., Clemencon, Moncalvo & Redhead.
Gills:
finely adnexed to almost free, 22-25 reaching stem, broad, 3 subgills between neighboring gills; light gray, edge colored as face to whitish; edge smooth to slightly crenate [scalloped], (Breitenbach), almost free to emarginate; whitish and darkening to brownish, (Hansen), whitish, yellowish to gray-black, (Moser)
Stem:
3.0-5.0 x 0.1-0.2cm, "cylindric, somewhat twisted", "hollow, fragile"; "silver-white, sometimes also with a faint brownish tint, especially toward the base"; "smooth, satiny, longitudinally fibrillose-grooved", top somewhat white-floccose, (Breitenbach), 2-6cm x 0.1-0.2cm, "cylindric, attenuated or somewhat rooting"; "brownish and white silky fibrillose, paler than cap", (Hansen), sooty gray (Moser)
Veil:
[none]
Odor:
slightly radish-like (Breitenbach)
Taste:
mild, slightly farinaceous, (Breitenbach)
Microscopic spores:
spores 5.8-7.1 x 4.8-5.8 microns, broadly elliptic to nearly round, spinose, iodine negative; basidia 4-spored, 25-35 x 8-10 microns, clavate, with basal clamp connection, with siderophilic granules; pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia not seen; cap cuticle of +/- parallel hyphae 4-7 microns wide, septa with clamp connections, (Breitenbach), spores 6-8 x 5-6 microns, broadly elliptic to nearly round, echinulate (illustrated), [presumably inamyloid], (Hansen), spores 6-7.5 x 5.5-6 microns, finely spiny, (Moser)
Spore deposit:
white (Breitenbach)
Notes:
Sagaranella tylicolor has been found at least in BC, (including fruiting on human feces (Redhead(4))), and on mushrooms, (Paul Kroeger, pers. comm.), AK (on decaying eagle carcass, Redhead(4)), and NY (Murrill as Prunulus farinaceus in Redhead(4)).
EDIBILITY
Habitat and Range
Habitat
single to gregarious, in hardwood forests or mixed hardwood-conifer forests, on leaves or needles on ground, summer to fall, (Breitenbach), gregarious or in rings, "on humus, on mosses, in needle beds, on decaying mushrooms, pastures, fertilized forests", (Hansen for Europe), deciduous and coniferous forest, (Moser for Europe), on human feces, on decaying eagle carcass, (Redhead(4)), may be found on rotting mushrooms or rotting flesh or human feces (Paul Kroeger, pers. comm.)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Tephrocybe tylicolor (Fr.) M.M. Mose