Clitocybe salmonilamella
Mem. N. Y. bot. Gdn 28(1): 9. 1976.
Common Name: none
For descriptions see Bigelow, Bigelow, & 'California Mushrooms'.
Scattered to gregarious or cespitose on decayed wood, seldom in duff or among mosses, in mixed forests; fruiting in late fall to mid-winter in coastal forests.
Unknown.
Clitocybe salmonilamella can be recognized by the pale brown to pale brownish orange or grayish orange hygrophanous cap, salmon-colored gills, lignicolous habit, and smooth spores that are white in deposit. Clitocybe deceptiva and Clitocybe fragrans are similar but terrestrial, with paler caps and a strong anise-like odor.
Bigelow, H.E. (1976). Studies on some lignicolous Clitocybe. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 28(1): 9-15. (Protologue)
Bigelow, H.E. (1982). North American Species of Clitocybe. Part I. J. Cramer: Vaduz, Liechtenstein. 280 p. (PDF)
Desjardin, D.E., Wood, M.G. & Stevens, F.A. (2015). California Mushrooms: The Comprehensive Identification Guide. Timber Press: Portland, OR. 560 p.
Gregory, D. (2007). The genus Clitocybe of California. Masters Thesis. San Francisco State University.
Siegel, N. & Schwarz, C. (2016). Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast. Ten Speed Press: Berkeley, CA. 601 p.