Resinomycena rhododendri (Pk.) Redhead & Singer Cap 0.4-1.5cm across, convex becoming flatter with a central depression and occasionally umbilicate; margin incurved at first, becoming uneven in age; white to pale yellowish white; dry to tacky, micaceous when dry, opaque to vaguely lined. Gills adnate to subdecurrent or arcuate-decurrent, close, moderately narrow; whitish; edges notched, sometimes beaded with resin. Stem 12-50x 1-2mm, hollow, equal or slightly enlarged above; whitish; sticky to tacky or dry with scattered heads of resin; tough and pliant drying to a horny texture; silky, white, radiating basal disc. Flesh tough-pliant; whitish. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores ellipsoid or broadly cylindrical, with a prominent apiculus, smooth, amyloid, 5.4-8.5 x 2.4-4.1ì. Deposit whitish. Habitat scattered or in clusters on leaf litter, twigs, and woody debris in hardwood forests. Common. Found in eastern North America, south to Georgia and west to Illinois. Season June-September. Not edible. |