Floccularia albolanaripes (G.F. Atk.) Redhead
Can. J. Bot. 65(8): 1556. 1987.

Common Name: none

Synonym: Armillaria albolanaripes

• Pileus

  Cap 3-15 cm broad, convex, expanding to nearly plane, sometimes with a low umbo; margin incurved becoming decurved at maturity, young sporocarps often appendiculate from veil fragments; surface sticky when moist, appressed fibrillose to squamulose, brownish at the disc shading to a yellowish margin; context thick, white, except a thin yellowish zone below the cuticle, unchanging; odor and taste mild.

• Lamellae

  Gills close, adnexed to notched, moderately broad, edges toothed, pallid at first, then yellowish.

• Stipe

  Stipe 3-9 cm tall, 1.5-3.5 cm thick, solid, becoming stuffed at maturity, equal to tapering to an enlarged base; surface white to cream at the apex more or less glabrous, covered below with coarse, white scales, the latter often arranged in concentric zones and tending to become yellowish (at least the edges) in age; partial veil cottony-floccose leaving fragments on the young cap margin or forming a fragile, often torn, superior cottony ring.

• Spores

  Spores 6-7.5 x 3.5-4.5 µm, elliptical, smooth, weakly amyloid; spore print white.

• Habitat

  Solitary or in small groups under conifers; fruiting from late fall to mid-winter.

• Edibility

  Edible, of fair to good quality. Local experience with this mushroom is slim.

• Comments

  An attractive mushroom, Floccularia albolanaripes is also distinctive. It is recognized by a yellowish-brown, appressed fibrillose cap which is often appendiculate with veil fragments when young, ragged gill edges, and shaggy white to yellowish scales on the stipe below the veil.

• References

  Smith, A.H. (1949). Mushrooms in their Natural Habitats. Sawyer's Inc: Portland, OR. 626 p.

• Other Descriptions and Photos
  • Nathan Wilson: Floccularia albolanaripes (CP)
  • Michael Wood: Floccularia albolanaripes (CP)
  • Michael Wood: Floccularia albolanaripes (CP)
  • Michael Wood: Floccularia albolanaripes (CP)
  • Michael Wood: Floccularia albolanaripes (CP)
  • Michael Wood: Floccularia albolanaripes (CP) -- closeup of gills
  • Mushroom Observer: Floccularia albolanaripes (CP)
  • Arora (1986): p. 194 (D & P), plate 43 (CP) [Armillaria albolanaripes]
  • Lincoff: p. 731 (D), plate 196 (CP) [Armillaria albolanaripes]
  • McKenny et al.: p. 44 (D & CP) [Armillaria albolanaripes]
  • Miller: sp. 107 (D & CP) [Armillaria albolanaripes]
  • Orr & Orr: p. 229 (D) [Armillaria albolanaripes]
  • Smith (1975): sp. 100 (D & CP) [Armillaria albolanaripes]
  
  

  (D=Description; I=Illustration; P=Photo; CP=Color Photo)