Cystoderma fallax Smith & Singer Cap 3-5cm across, convex-umbonate; dull rusty brown to tawny ochre; covered with granulose scales or finely powdery. Gills crowded, adnate; white. Stem 30-60 x 3-10mm; dark red-brown and granular below the ring, pallid above; ring large, flaring. Flesh white. Odor pleasant. Taste mild. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, amyloid, 3.5 - 5.5 x 2.8-3.6µ. Deposit white. Habitat on moss or humus in conifer woods. Found in the Pacific Northwest across to the Great Lakes. Season August-October. Not edible. Comment Cap surface turns black with KOH. |