RBG Kew herbarium accession number K(M)167658. 18 August 2010 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Bell shaped, expanding with age, deeply furrowed, sparsely covered with white and brown scales, especially at the centre, whitish to pale buff when young, becoming greyish with age, to about 2.5 cm across Gills Adnate, whitish, then grey, and finally blackish Stem Equal, slightly expanded at the base, hollow, white Flesh Thin, white. Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Spring to autumn Distribution Rare Habitat On branches and dead wood from deciduous trees Spore Print Black Microscopic Features Spores ovoid to ellipsoidal, smooth, with germ pore (7.5-10) x (5-6) µm2. Basidia club shaped, 4 spored. Gill edge cystidia flask shaped (lageniform) to bag shaped (vesicular). Stem apex cystidia flask shaped. Edibility Unknown Notes This fungus resembles a pale Coprinellus micaceus, or a small Coprinellus domesticus. It is distinguished by oval spores and flask shaped gill edge cystidia. 
Gill edge cystidia. 18 August 2010 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill edge cystidia. 18 August 2010 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Stem apex cystidia. 18 August 2010 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |