Sample: NA-11-N
Collector: HS
Notes: Growing pendant on rocks, completely submerged underground. Discovered while sampling for soil. Abundant fine roots present, but very little soil and little to no duff/litter. Tanoak dominant forest, mixed with Doug fir.
growing out of wet soil
no distinct smell
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Size: 3mm-1.5cm
Substrate: Decaying Kahili Ginger stalks/culms.
An endemic mushroom that is associated with hupu‘u, the endemic tree fern (Cibotium menziesii)
Found growing on an endemic tree fern. Hygrocybe hapuuae, note the narrow light yellow stipe, pigmented cap, and white gills.