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originally suspected Calocybe, but the pileipellis is covered in broom cells.

Substrate: on wood

Habitat: High-elevation oak cloud forest

Ecoregion: Talamanca Montane Forests (NA0167)

Collectors: D. Newman

Collection #: CUER008

Collected for the 2016 Organization for Tropical Studies “Fungi and Fungus-Like Organisms” Course

Specimens collected, transported, deposited, duplicated, exported and DNA sequenced with the express, written permission of the Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica (MAE) and the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INaBio), in compliance with the Nagoya Protocol. Copies of permits available to select parties upon request.

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Image #1:
Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro
1/8 sec, f/8.0, ISO 400
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (9 Images)
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Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro
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Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (12 Images)
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Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro
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Image #4:
Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro
1/4 sec, f/11, ISO 400
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
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Image #5:
Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro
0.4 sec, f/11, ISO 400
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (4 Images)
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Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro
1/5 sec, f/11, ISO 400
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (3 Images)
Image #7:
Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro
1/15 sec, f/11, ISO 100
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (9 Images)
Image #8:
Canon EOS 6D + Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x
1.0 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (19 Images)

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Additional specimens not added to iNat observation fields:
Herbario Nacional del Ecuador: RLC1605

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Comments: collariate; fruiting bodies not exposed to sunlight notably paler

Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Feb. 8, 2022.

Growing in the debris of Pinus patula.

Pileus very dark brown with a white bloom (broom cells), 1.5 – 8 cm. Stipe 1 – 3 mm, orange below, purple above. Gills turning orangish in age. Primordia with white stipe and a light tan pileus.