Habitat: Growing on soil in mixed forest
Description: Light brown convex cap with scales containing darker brown margins. Cap ranging from 2-5 cm across with underside composed of slightly decurrent white teeth about 3mm long. Brown stipe 3-4 cm tall with a blueish-black base and white mycelium. Mycorrhizal
Spore print: Dark brown
Habitat: Growing on soil under hardwoods
Description: Violet colored convex cap ranging from 2-5 cm in diameter with some light tan speckling present on some of the caps. Cap is viscid and the slime is acidic. Stipe is a lighter violet-white color with a brown ring zone present on some young specimen. Stipe ranges from 4-7 cm long. Brown remnants of a cortina are present around the edges of the cap on some specimen. Gills are crowded, attached, and a light violet color. Spores 10-11.25 x 6.25 micrometers. Mycorrhizal with oaks.
Spore print: Brown
Habitat: Growing near dead pine, seemingly on soil but most likely attached to buried root.
Description: Velvety brown umbonate cap about 3 cm wide with slightly inrolled margin. Light brown stipe with fine hairs and dots creating stippled texture. Stipe about 11 cm tall above soil, with an additional 8 cm below ground. Saprobic.
Spore print: White
Habitat: Growing on soil under mixed forest
Description: Many fused caps connected to a shared base. About 2 inches across, 1.5 inches tall. The cap margins are a whitish-yellow color, and the lower part of the caps are a grayish brown. Smells sulfurous. KOH black on surface. Mycorrhizal.
Spore print: White.
Spores don’t have true spines, differentiating them from other Thelephora species.
Habitat: Growing on soil in mixed forest.
Description: Very round white mushrooms with a tapering sterile base. Tops had 2.5 cm diameter and they stood 3-3.5 cm high. The peridium is white but has brownish spines. Saprobic.
On dead buckeye stump near creek.
Several fruitbodies found growing on what might be Scarlet Oak, Quercus coccinea. This large fruitbody seemed particularly old. Pore surface not glancing. Pores extremely small, at least 6/mm.