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Tiny gilled mushrooms grew on incubated deer dung.
Cap is about 3mm and stalk is around 3-4cm.
Spores are dark brown with a germ pore, measure in H2O
(6.9) 7.6 - 9.4 (9.6) × (3.7) 3.8 - 4.3 (4.4) µm
Q = (1.8) 1.9 - 2.3 (2.5) ; N = 34
Me = 8.6 × 4 µm ; Qe = 2.1

Small stinkhorns in my garden. Like Phallus rubicundus but white and more slender. Has a cap. Does not have a veil. Does not have a crater. Jelly inside eggs fluoresces bright yellow under 395 nm. Outside of eggs reflects UV light. Spore caps mildly fluoresce cyan. Phallus multicolor growing in adjacent garden bed for reference. Collected, LMRFNQ12.

Growing in mulch. Annulus lacking. Caps with appendiculate veil remnants. Young gills white, becoming grayish to black. Pileipellis composed of hyaline rounded cells. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia smooth, thin-walled, utriform to fusoid-ventricose. Cheilocystidia measurements: (22.3) 24.3 – 34.2 (40) × (8.8) 11.1 – 14.5 (16) µm, Q = (1.7) 1.9 – 2.8 (3.5); N = 30, Me = 29.8 × 12.9 µm; Qe = 2.3. Basidia 4-sterigmate and sphaeropedunculate. Spores dark brown, smooth and irregularly ellipsoid. Remaining dark brown in 1M KOH. Some spores heart-shaped to mitten-shaped. Spore measurements from non-heart-shaped spores: (10) 10.9 – 14 (14.5) × (5.1) 5.6 – 7.3 (8.5) µm, Q = (1.6) 1.7 – 2.3 (2.4); N = 30, Me = 12.4 × 6.4 µm; Qe = 2. Spores measurements from heart-shaped to mitten-shaped spores: (11.2) 11.8 – 13.5 (14.3) × (7.8) 9.7 – 12.2 (12.3) µm, Q = 1 – 1.3 (1.6); N = 11, Me = 12.7 × 10.6 µm; Qe = 1.2

On incubated deer dung after 6 days of incubation. Collected on Jan 30, observed on Feb 6 matured.
The first mushroom had a 4mm pileus and 5cm stipe.
Ascospores brown, germ pore eccentric, measure
(8.6) 8.7 - 9.8 (10.1) × (4) 4.1 - 4.6 µm
Q = 2 - 2.3 ; N = 14
Me = 9.3 × 4.3 µm ; Qe = 2.2