Tubaria confragosa

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)

Gills not free
Spore print tan, orange, deep ochre, yellowish olive, olive brown, rusty or cinnamon brown or deep brown
Ring usually either absent or not membranous

Growing on wood

Cap usually less than an inch across; hygrophanous; usually darker shade(s) of brown: more or less caramel-colored
Sometimes lacking a stem

Cap flattening out at maturity; often minutely fibrillose
In my experience, usually growing on mulch, rotting sticks, leaves, other small bits of woody forest litter

Tubaria confragosa     (Fries) R. Kühner

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

• Partial veil persistent, forming a white annulus that sometimes disappears in age

Microscropic Characters

• Spores 6-9 x 4-6 µm

 

 

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