Favoritos de loreross

Fruiting beneath Western Hemlock and Sitka Spruce.
Staining: inky blackish(dingy blue then to dirty brown).
Cap: Areolate but irregularly so(not uniformly cracked throughout).
Harvested a single specimen.
Spore printed a portion of cap directly on a glass slide.
Spore print: faint olive brownish.
Mounted spore printed slide in Lugol’s solution.
Microscopy:
Spores: AMYLOID(tips are noticeably green in Lugol’s). See images of work.
Spores: elongate but many with a squared off/truncated end. Medium/Lg in size.
Dehydrated specimen and bagged for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/530558?q=1p9Ob

Fruit abundantly on Peltigera.
Final shots of the specimens laid out on black felt.
High on the edge of a deep ravine 100’s of feet above the Big Quilcene River.
Alan Rockefeller kept specimens for sequencing. Will look forward to his results.