Pigment encrustatipons present in pileipellis and stipitipellis, dissolving in alkali and the pelli becoming pale olive green.
Pileus 1.5-4 cm broad, slightly conic when young, subumbonate to convexo-subumbonate with age, dry, radially fibrillose, without scales, evenly brown (6F8,7,6,) overall. Flesh thin, watery tan too white, without odor and taste. Lamellae adnexed, close, with even edges, mustard brown (5E6). Stipe 3-6 cm long, 4-6 mm broad, even and equal, dry, finely subpruinose, especially above, more appressed subfibrillose downward, white above, becoming pale brown toward base, whitish at base, with interior pithy becoming hollow. Spores angular-nodulose; with metuloid cystidia encrsuted at apex.
Pileus 1.5-3 cm broad, moist, hygrophanous, mostly plane, pale brown. Flesh watery white to watery brown, thin, with mild odor and tate. Lamellae adnexed, close, whitish becoming pale tan with even edges. Stipe 2-3 cm long, 3-4 mm broad, equal, whitish to pale tan and glabrous above, more orangish brown downward and subpubescent to strigose.
Black morel with Aspen and Douglas fir
On soil under mixed conifers and aspen. Collected by Alex and Campbell Bradley at the 2019 AMS White Mountain Foray.
DNA Sequenced
Found with Douglas-fir, Englemann Spruce, Aspen, Limber pine (5-needle)