Single fruiting in muddy soil beneath solid Alnus rubra canopy.
Stem: extremely long in comparison to cap.
15cm tall. Apex widening and covered in dense chevrons appearing pruinose. Stem flexible(not brittle). Chevrons/streaks appearing grayish blue once home.
NOT DEEPLY ROOTED, just very tall.
Cap: with low umbo/subtle upraised central disc. Tacky subviscid.
Gills: notched, slightly decurrent, with numerous incomplete short gills.
Odor: non-descript.
Taste: non-descript.
Carefully harvested entire specimen.
Spore printed cap directly on a glass slide.
Spore print: brown.
Mounted spore printed slide in KOH.
Spores: HUGE! Approximately 16um long. lemon shaped, pumpkin seed shaped, very thick walled, slightly roughened/wrinkled, golden brown in KOH. Two interior glandular dots present in most all spores analyzed.
Dehydrated specimen thoroughly and bagged for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-
Growing with moss on downed deciduous tree.
spores white
Odor slight, sweet apple-like
Growing in the forest duff.
Mild smell and sweet taste.
7092
SDA1320
Maybe Cortinarius napus
Found in a very disturbed prairie fragment dominated by Racomitrium and Polytrichum, had rhizomorphs entangled with the basal stem of many Polytrichum, growing next to a pine sapling and below scotch broom. ITS barcode shows close alignment with Omphalina "rivulicola-CA01", seemingly matching this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146729238
No fluorescence. Cap satiny smooth.