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Found in a Eucalyptus globulus and Hesperocyparis macrocarpa dominant forest, Lands End Trail, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Growing from Eucalyptus globulus leaves, twigs and especially numerous on seed pods
Stipitate, yellow to orange to brown goblet-shaped cup fungus. Hymenophore flat, outer excipulum finely hairy, base of stipe brown

Ectal excipulum with short, inflated terminal elements, hyaline, septate; end cell clavate, 5.4 - 7.5 µm wide.
Asci unitunicate, apex thick, euamyloid (IKI+); (33.8) 33.81 - 42.4 × 3.9 - 5 µm, Q = 6.9 - 10.6 ; Me = 37.9 × 4.6 µm, Qe = 8.3 (N = 5). Paraphyses hyaline, cylindrical, septate, branching, 1.7 - 2.5 µm thick. Ascospores hyaline, ellipsoid and slightly bent, aseptate, (5.1) 5.15 - 7.27 (7.3) × 2 - 2.3 µm, Q = (2.6) 2.63 - 3.1 ; Me = 5.9 × 2.1 µm, Qe = 2.8 (N = 5).

Riparian valley with hardwood canopy cover. McGee Creek, around 7,600 ft. Inyo National Forest
Growing in Brachythecium rivulare on bank of McGee Creek, near McGee Creek Forest Service Campground
Pileus umbonate, pointed, brownish/gray with purplish tones, inrolled margin, small rosecomb present! Lamellae covered by a thick, white cortina. Stipe white at apex, becoming darker near base, extremely fibrous with a silvery sheen
Smell indistinct

Microscopy
Spores = ~ 17 x 10 um, no reaction with melzers reagent

Not much scent
Not even the smell of sourdough

growing around the roots of
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54659502
However the next day I found ones ~5-8 m away that didn't seem associated with those roots

Stromatic conidiomata. Conidiophores with one series of monopodial branching in clusters of three, (8.4) 10.6 - 12.5 (12.9) × (1.4) 1.42 - 1.7 (2.2) µm; Me = 11.3 × 1.7 µm (N = 6).
Conidia borne singly, hyaline, smooth, aseptate bacilliform, (10.2) 10.9 - 13.5 (15) × (2.2) 2.5 - 2.9 (3.2) µm, Q = (3.5) 3.7 - 5.3 (5.7); Me = 12.1 × 2.7 µm, Qe = 4.6 (N = 30); agglutinated in mucilaginous ribbons.

Tahoe National Forest in the 2022 Mosquito Fire burn scar. Pinus, Abies, Quercus and Calocedrus decurrens dominant mixed hardwood/conifer montane forest
Growing from compact burned soil on side of dirt road
Deformed, lobed, dense sporocarp. Exterior shaped of purplish grey, becoming more orange near margins. Hymenophore pored, white. Short, stubby stipe
Smell slightly sweet

Taste sharply bitter and acidic
Orange/brown KOH
Hymenophore brightly fluorescent

HAY-F-007804

trees closest that could be the species the wood its growing on is derived from
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172465650
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172465651
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172465649

p7 4-1

On Geopora:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208652805

Spores dark brown (speckled in transmitted light), smooth, broadly fusiform to citriform; walls 1.5 µm thick;
(23.5) 24.1 - 27.4 (28.8) × (13.1) 13.5 - 16.3 (17.4) µm
Q = (1.5) 1.6 - 1.9 (2) ; N = 31
Me = 25.9 × 14.8 µm ; Qe = 1.8.

Emerging from side dead conifer, possible Jeffrey pine.
Secotioid agaric with shape of squashed baseball. Cap slimy, orange-yellow with fibrillose reddish brown scales. Gills grayish brown, wrinkled, looking like meat. Stipe well-developed but squat; white with reddish brown scales. Thick partial veil, becoming separated in older specimens but cap margins still very close to stipe (not opening).
Odor woody. KOH+ pink.