16 October 2021 South Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Cap conical, expanding with age, with a sharp central bump, surface silky, dry or slightly slimy, grey brown, margin paler, to about 25 mm across Gills Broad, adnexed with a decurrent tooth, crowded, white Stem Cylindrical, pale grey brown, covered with dark flecks Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Late summer to autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat On rotten trunks of deciduous trees, often among moss Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores globose to sub-globose, smooth, inamyloid (5-7)µm. Basidia 4 spored. Gill cystidia utriform, clavate or almost cylindrical. Clamps present. Edibility Unknown Notes This species could be mistaken for a Mycena, although unlike Mycena it has inamyloid spores. 
16 October 2021 South Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A crop from the previous image. 16 October 2021 South Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 16 October 2021 South Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill edge cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 16 October 2021 South Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Stem cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 16 October 2021 South Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |