MushroomBot<p>Sowerbyella rhenana</p><p><a href="https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Sowerbyella_rhenana.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mushroomexpert.com/Sowerbyella</span><span class="invisible">_rhenana.html</span></a></p><p>Ecology: Probably mycorrhizal (Tedersoo et al. 2010), growing gregariously or in loose clusters on the ground, usually in conifer woods; summer and fall, or over winter on the West Coast; apparently widely distributed in North America but more common in the west. The illustrated and described collections are from California and Michigan.</p><p>Fruiting Body: Cup-shaped, with a stem. Cups 18-25 mm across; upper surface bald, bright orange; under surface bald, pale orange; stem 10-25 x 3-5 mm, whitish to pale orange and downy when young, becoming orange and more or less bald; flesh orangish, not changing when sliced, brittle.</p><p>Odor: Not distinctive.</p><p>Microscopic Features: Spores 18-22 x 10-12 m; ellipsoid; smooth when immature, becoming ornamented with a thick, coarse reticulation; hyaline and uniguttulate in KOH; orangish golden in Melzer's. Asci 275-300 x 15-20 m; 8-spored; hyaline in KOH; tips inamyloid. Paraphyses exceeding the asci by 5-10 m; 3-6 m wide; cylindric with apices subclavate to clavate (occasionally with slightly irregular swellings), straight or hooked 45-90 degrees; septate; smooth; hyaline in KOH.</p><p>REFERENCES: (Fuckel, 1870) J. Moravec, 1986. (Seaver, 1928; Moravec, 1985; Arora, 1986; Moravec, 1988; Barron, 1999; McNeil, 2006; Medel et al., 2006; Yao & Spooner, 2006; Perry et al., 2007; Trudell & Ammirati, 2009; Tedersoo et al., 2010; Desjardin, Wood & Stevens, 2015; Siegel & Schwarz, 2016; L&aelig;ss&oslash;e & Petersen, 2019.) Herb. Kuo 09281904.</p><p><a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mycology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mycology</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/shrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/sporespondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sporespondence</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/floraspondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floraspondence</span></a></p>