Growing indoors on compost with a Capsicum chinense plant. 14 January 2014 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Bell shaped, expanding with age, radially furrowed, buff or pale brown, becoming grey, to about 8mm wide Gills Fairly distant Stem Equal, fibrous, densely covered with fine hairs, to about 45 mm long Flesh Thin Smell Unknown Taste Unknown Season Summer to autumn Distribution Rarely reported Habitat On soil, small twigs, compost, and woody debris Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal smooth (9-13.5) x (5.5-6.5) µm2. Basidia 4 spored. Cap cystidia flask shaped with a long cylindrical neck. Stem cystidia similar. Gill edge cystida ellipsoidal or bag shaped. Edibility Inedible Notes The specimen shown was identified using the keys and descriptions in Funga Nordica. The specimen in the first photograph is about 1 cm high. 
17 January 2014 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores viewed with a x100 immersion microscope objective and x2.5 projection eyepiece. 14 January 2014 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Cap cystidia viewed with a x40 microscope objective and x2.5 projection eyepiece. 14 January 2014 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Stem cystidia viewed with a x40 microscope objective and x2.5 projection eyepiece. 14 January 2014 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |