purplish brown when young and fresh to orangish brown or yellowish brown; the margin finely lined. gills: attached to the stem; close; lilac to pale purple at first, becoming brownish or rusty brown; often with whitish edges. stem: - cm long; to nearly cm thick; equal or tapering a little to the base; covered...
becoming broadly convex to flat; moist and sticky when fresh; bald; orangish brown to yellowish brown. gills: attached to the stem; whitish to pale yellow; crowded or close. stem: - cm long; - mm thick; equal or larger towards base; tough; pale to yellowish brown or orange brown when young; becoming covered...
pale tan partial veil . stem: – cm long; up to cm thick; tapered to the base; dry; silky near the apex; with a fairly persistent whitish ring that features an orangish brownish edge and eventually becomes orangish brown overall--or with merely a ring zone ; whitish becoming brown from the base up; covered...
into small, sharp scales with maturity; orangish brown to pinkish brown overall when young; when mature with orangish brown to dark brown scales over a whitish to beige ground color that is exposed near the margin or nearly to the darker center. gills: free from the stem; crowded; white; at first covered...
, making it difficult to determine where the tree stops and the fungus begins; finely hairy to bald, becoming very rugged, and radially cracked; brown to dark grayish brown or blackish; paler and smoother along the margin; usually at least faintly zoned with distinct annual layers; often becoming covered...
by a pale partial veil that may be covered with slime. stem: - cm long; usually under cm thick; white or yellowish near the apex; sheathed below the apex with scaly zones or patches of pale yellowish to buff-colored material; usually with a ring zone ; whitish, yellowish, or very pale tan, becoming...
, scattered, or gregariously; early summer through fall; possibly widely distributed east of the great plains. the illustrated and described collections are from illinois and iowa. cap: – cm across; convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; sticky when fresh; bald; shiny when dry, and often covered...
with whitish down; with age becoming pocked, pitted, or minutely scaly in places, and usually covered with adhering soil and debris; often bruising reddish or yellowish when rubbed; with maturity splitting near the top and peeling back in irregular rays to expose the spore mass; skin to mm thick or...
breaking up with development to form pigment streaks and fibrils; whitish underneath, or pinkish in wet weather; often yellowing when rubbed repeatedly (especially on the margin). gills: free from the stem; crowded; short-gills frequent; whitish at first, becoming pink and eventually brown; when young covered...
in the genus cercocarpus, including birchleaf mountain mahogany ), presumably in a mycorrhizal relationship; growing gregariously; summer; utah and colorado. the illustrated and described collection is from larimer county, colorado. cap: – cm across; broadly convex; dry; dull yellowish to whitish; covered...