Resupinatus applicatus

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)

Spore print "light-colored": white or buff, sometimes tinged with pink or tan. Greenish and (except for the Russulales) yellow spore prints also go here
Stalk fibrous, not fracturing like a piece of chalk

None of the special features distinguishing the other white-spored genera:
Gills not free, as in the Lepiotas and Amanitas
Basidia not extra-long, as in the Hygrophoraceae
Spores smooth, except for Lentinellus

Growing on trees or dead wood, leaves, or sticks, or organic debris, often in moss

Fruiting body less than an inch across; sometimes with a short, stubby stalk; often sessile, attached to the substrate by a single point of attachment, with the gills originating at this point

Cap dark grey, gelatinous

Resupinatus applicatus     (Batsch: Fries) S. F. Gray

Here are the characters that distinguish this species from the others in its group. For its more general characters, see higher up on the page.
If there's just a few words or a microscopic feature here, a more thorough description can be found above.

Diagnosis

• Cap up to 1/4" across, hairy, tinged blue
  
• On the underside of fallen logs

Comments

Between its size, color, and habitat, one rarely finds this fungus unless one is specifically looking for it


 

 

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