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Large, densely cespitose groups in planter with tomatoes and rosemary, appearing after tropical storm. Downy/fuzzy universal veil tissue dense on cap, extending down the stipe, also present on annulus which is weak and falls away easily. Veil tissue very soft to touch, becoming sleek on cap with desiccation. Stipe bases enmeshed in stringy mat of plant roots (both rosemary and tomato.) Strong fungal smell, rotting fruitbodies were attracting flies. Very mild taste, almost flavorless. No UV fluorescence. Even the fresher fruitbodies are weak and floppy, falling over easily without plant/planter wall/other fruitbodies to lean on. Rotten fruitbodies very strong smell, turning black/brown.

Spore deposit white. No distinct odor. Cap 1.9 - 2.1 cm across. Gills bruise pale orange. Stipe 3 - 5.7 cm x 1.5 - 6 mm (base) thick, bruises reddish which then turns brown. Fruitbody dries dark brown. Cheilocystidia clavate, with inclusions, 32.5 - 50 x 11.3 µm. Pileus covering terminal elements cylindrical, narrowing to a point at the tip, up to 250 µm long x 11.5 - 12 um wide. Growing under ferns in Picea sitchensis forest.
I believe this is Leucoagaricus flammeotinctoides as described in Lepiotaceus fungi in California, U.S.A. Leucoagaricus sect. Piloselli by Else C. Vellinga (Vol 112, pp. 393-444 April - June 2010)

Small brown fruitbodies growing on deadwood,
Wavy, sinuate gills,
Dark brown stipe with lighter apex,
Blue UV on gills margin,
Near doug fir/madrone/chinquapin/bay laurel/tan oak/maple/evergreen Huckleberry/salal,
No odor,
Brown KOH,
Bitter taste

Initially thought this might be D. stillatus, but the spores on this collection were too large. The only species of Dacrymyces that I am aware of with spores this large is D. variisporus. The spores were 17.5 - 23.3 x 5.6 - 6.9 µm. Growing on dead alder.

On large fallen Tsuga heterophylla, or possibly Pseudotsuga. Toothlike pores, Off white, odor mild, growing near a Stereum sp. With white webby’s margin.
Texture soft, growing mostly on bark.
Whole fruitbody spanning at least 6 feet.

Toothed-like resupinate fungus
Growing from a sodden, dead log overhanging East Fork Barton Creek, San Bernardino NF
Peachy/pink in color, hymenophore with long teeth-like projections
Smell sweet, slightly floral
Strong purple/black KOH

Orange/yellow Ascomycete growing directly on wood in East Fork Barton Creek, San Bernardino NF
Lots of red under UVB from surrounding wood illuminating the presence of algae/Cyanobacteria/some other photosynthesizing organism they are in association with

Hymenochaetopsis(Hydnoporia):
Fruiting abundantly on a split/interior section of a fallen Western Hemlock.
Gray to brown tones throughout.
Capped sections with tight concentric banding similar to mature H. tabacina. This collection had an interesting floral odor that stood out as unique.
Harvested multiple sections/specimens and dehydrated for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/526997?q=1p1WK

Growing from Picea stump
Strong red bruising reaction
Dark black KOH reaction forming slowly
Smell sweet, taste indistinct

Specimen stored at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History Fungarium Akureyri

Under conifers, with spruce and fir present.
When handled, it changes color starting with a paler yellow, but in a couple hours it will be more amber or yolk yellow.
Is more slender than Agaricus moronii, and doesn't have an almond odor, the gills are no true pink either.
The key would bring you to Agaricus summensis , but we have two sequences of this one already, so I think is the same as the others.
There is some variation on the "scaliness" and how robust these are; I could attribute that to their age, and to the amount of water for the season.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139976071
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108695770

initially attracted by the red droplets which were happening up and down the trunk of this silver fir only near aggregations of this lichen, larger orangish spots on trunk are where I took samples from.