11 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, with a narrow umbo, coarsely scaly, greyish brown, to 2 cm across Gills Free, broad, whitish then pink Stem Equal, whitish, longitudinally lined, base slightly floccose Flesh Whitish, fragile Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat On dead wood in deciduous woods, favouring beech Spore Print Pink Microscopic Features Spores sub-spherical, smooth (6-8) x (5-6) µm2. Cap hyphae filamentous. Gill edge cystidia clavate or spindle shaped, sometimes slightly capitate. Edibility Unknown 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 11 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill edge cystidia in Congo Red viewed with a x40 objective. 11 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Pileipellis hyphae in Congo Red viewed with a x40 objective. 11 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |