Favoritos de sgurvets

Creek trail, Sugarloaf State Park. Arbutus menziesii, Quercus, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Umbellularia californica, Heteromeles arbutifolia dominated mixed hardwood/conifer forest
Growing on the moist underside of decomposing hardwood (what I believe to be Umbellularia californica)
Poroid, amorphous, white crust with extending rhizomorphs. Pores consist of short tubes, varying in size and stature. Thin and fragile
Smells like old animal bedding at a pet store, slightly like urine
Taste instinct
KOH indistinct

Fluoresces a dim white

This is the first picture of Sporormiella calomera. Ahmed and Cain's description of the species only had drawings and it has not been photographed before.

12-celled, spores 65µm-80um x 15µm-18um. Asci around 210µm

WEW019 Was collected by Bitty Roy and Keyyana Blount on Feb 3, 2015 at Big Spires Prairie, which is a restored native prairie near Fern Ridge Reservoir, Lane County, Oregon.  The fungus is terrestrial and grass associated; the grass present was Festuca roemeri (native). This prairie had been burned a few months earlier, in the fall of 2014.  No trees were nearby.

hunting from nearby tree, about 10:30am, looking intently down at snow, then landed and mantled for a couple of minutes, burying its head into the snow several times before flying off in the opposite direction