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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/56599519
Fungee V

Hodophilus rugulosus
DNA - ITS
Good match to type
First Indiana collection. Only other DNA match is the sequence of the type collection.

Dark purple scaly caps, becoming brown to almost black, cobweb veil, orangey rust spores. Flesh pale gray-violet, unchanging. In photo 3 the upper cap has a purple patch where it was hidden under the cap above and didn't get sun exposure. Slightly fragrant, fruity odor. Growing under and on decaying log but not apparently from it. Mixed woods, oak predominant. So beautiful I couldn’t stop taking pictures! Last photo same cluster 3 days later, caps darkened with only trace of purple where cap was hidden below another cap.

Found growing on live juniper and twigs nearby. Saprobic, possibly parasitic Mycelium is light orange mixed with white. No distinctive smell or taste. Spore surface is white. Stem and top of cap is velvety in texture. The younger specimens are more maroon/velvet in color and as it gets older, you can notice wrinkled pattern on the cap. Stem is hollow and partially filled with white filament.