Xeromphalina cauticinalis
Bull. Soc. Mycol. Fr. 50: 18. 1934.
Common Name: none
For descriptions see Miller, Knudsen & Vesterholt (2008), and 'California Mushrooms'.
Scattered to densely gregarious, terrestrial in conifer debris; fruiting from fall through early winter, widely distributed.
Unknown.
Xeromphalina cauticinalis can be distinguished by its bitter taste, growth on the ground in conifer duff, branched, coralloid cystidia, and red KOH reaction. Xeromphalina campanella grows on conifer wood, is mild, turns yellowish brown in KOH, and has simple, fusoid to clavate cystidia. The rare Xeromphalina fulvipes grows in the same habitat but has adnate (not decurrent) gills and much narrower spores.
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