Spores:
(6.3)6.5-7.6(8.6)x(3.8)3.9-4.4(4.8)um
Q=(1.5)1.6-1.8 ; N=30
Me=7.1x4.2um Qe=1.7
Smooth, ellpisoid to ovoid with prominent apical germ pore.
Print: Rusty orange brown.
Basida: fat clavate, 4 sterigmate.
Pleurocysidia: Not found.
Cheilocystidia: Abundant forming a sterile edge. Shape variable, fusiod ventricose, subfusoid, lageniform, subcapitate.
Pileipellis: a thin brown cutis.
Clamp connections: abundant, found throughout.
Habitat: Fruiting gregariously off deadwood with Pinus, Picea nearby.
Spore deposit brown. No distinct odor. Growing on shore pine woody debris. Cap 4 cm across, very hygrophanous drying from the center of the cap outward. Stipe 6.4 cm long x 4 - 6 mm wide. Spores with germ pore, (6.2) 6.3 - 6.6 (6.8) X (3.8) 3.82 - 4.1 (4.2) µm, Q = (1.5) 1.55 - 1.65 (1.7), N = 20, Me = 6.4 X 4 µm, Qe = 1.6.
An astonishing discovery in our side yard this weekend, growing next to (not on) some cardboard boxes we had put down in the fall to kill the grass underneath so we can put in some native cover. Hopefully it will thrive!
Growing by my burn barrel