Arrhenia acerosa

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Arrhenia acerosa

2 November 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Cap

Shell shaped, surface brown, covered with fine scales, margin scalloped, pale, to about 3 cm across

Gills

Adnate to decurrent, brown

Stem

Lateral, short, pale brown

Flesh

Thin, brown

Smell

Indistinct or Pelagonium like

Taste

Indistinct

Season

Autumn to early winter

Distribution

Rare

Habitat

On rotten wood, and on the ground

Spore Print

White

Microscopic Features

Spores subglobose to ellipsoidal, smooth (6-9.5) x (4-6.5) µm2. Basidia 4 spored. Cystidia absent. Clamps present.

Edibility

Unknown

Arrhenia acerosa

2 November 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.