Pinecones Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 Another brightly colored resident I'm trying to identify. No spore print collected as of yet. I only found a tiny handful of these little fuzzy buttons. Stems were textured/flakey, caps almost looked porous but I don't think they actually are. They were just so tint that the detail was harder to read. Conifer forest, Montana USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted October 13, 2019 Report Share Posted October 13, 2019 Species of Cystoderma or Cystodermella. These genera produce small brown/yellow mushrooms with scaly/grainy cap surfaces and a partial veil that may or may not form a ring or ring zone on the stipe. The difference between the two genera is that Cystoderma have amyloid spores (turns black in Meltzer's reagent) and Cystodermella spores are not amyloid. Other wise the tow mushrooms are very similar. In the following Mushroom Expert acount, the two genera are lumped together. http://www.mushroomexpert.com/cystoderma.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinecones Posted October 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 Very cool! Thanks for the info! I will do more research on them. Yet another species of mushroom totally new to me I'm enjoying learning about them all and putting 'names to faces' so to speak with my local mushrooms! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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