MushroomBot<p>Tricholoma rapipes</p><p><a href="https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Tricholoma_rapipes.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mushroomexpert.com/Tricholoma_</span><span class="invisible">rapipes.html</span></a></p><p>Ecology: Mycorrhizal with spruces and firs, especially Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; late summer and early fall (monsoon season) in the Rocky Mountains; potentially in summer and fall in northern North America; in Scandinavia and the Alps appearing in late summer and fall. The illustrated and described collections are from Colorado.</p><p>Cap: 3-8 cm across; at first conical-convex with an incurved margin, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat, often with a central bump; dry or tacky; bald; yellowish green to greenish yellow, with a pale yellow or nearly whitish margin.</p><p>Gills: Attached to the stem by a notch; close or nearly distant; short-gills frequent; whitish; sometimes developing yellow shades with age.</p><p>Stem: 3-6 cm long above ground; 1-2 cm thick; tapered to base, with a substantial rooting portion; bald or, near the apex, finely mealy; dry; whitish, with flushes of pale yellowish or pale yellowish green; staining pinkish orange to orangish brown, especially toward the base; basal mycelium white.</p><p>Flesh: Whitish and unchanging when sliced, except in the stem base, where it is usually pinkish to orangish.</p><p>Odor and Taste: Soap-like or not distinctive.</p><p>Chemical Reactions: KOH pale orange on cap surface.</p><p>Spore Print: White.</p><p>Microscopic Features: Spores 5-7 x 3.5-5 m; ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Lamellar trama parallel. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Hymenial cystidia not found. Pileipellis a cutis; elements 5-10 m wide, smooth, hyaline in KOH. Clamp connections present.</p><p><a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mycology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mycology</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/shrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/sporespondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sporespondence</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/floraspondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floraspondence</span></a></p>