Under chamise, near manzanita.
Cap 3–4 cm diameter, shiny purplish brown, with vellipellis. Fleshy staining slightly reddish. Stipe base swollen. Cortina forming persistent annulus consistently near the base of the stipe.
Odor mild, slightly wet dog.
KOH-
Stipe and gills UV+ blue

Ascus apical ring euamyloid (IKI+); ascus walls euamyloid and ascogenous contents dextrinoid, causing overall bright purple color.
Exciple in two layers: outer layer textura globulosa; inner layer textura prismatica.
Ascospores hyaline, elliptical, aguttulate, (19.2) 21.3 - 23.7 (24.5) × (12.3) 12.9 - 15.4 (16.6) µm; Q = (1.4) 1.5 - 1.7 (1.8) ; N = 30;
Me = 22.6 × 14.2 µm ; Qe = 1.6. Spore wall 1.5 - 2 µm thick.

In soil under burned cottonwood.

Small hypogeous gasteroid basidiomata, exterior light peach color, interior light yellow, composed of convoluted hymenium. Spores ellipsoid, rugulose, with small hilar appendage, 14–16 x 10.4–11 μm; walls 1.5–2 μm thick; starting light yellow, becoming brown. Basidia 34 x 9.4 μm; mostly 2-spored.

Partially buried in soil, on shaded slope dominated by manzanita, also with Eriodictyon, Prunus, and Ribes, with Quercus cornelius-mulleri about 20 ft away.

With Arctostaphylos.

Anza Borrego