October 2001 New Forest. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Mycena uracea Cap Initially conical to bell shaped, expanding with age, sometime flattened with a central bump, smooth to radially grooved, grey brown, brown to very dark brown, about 40 mm across Gills Adnexed, with interveining, somewhat distant, greyish to whitish, sometimes with a pink tinge, edge whitish Stem Cylindrical to compressed, sometimes longitudinally grooved, smooth, greyish to brownish, deeply rooting Flesh Whitish Smell +/- radish Taste +/- radish Season Late summer to autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat On soil on heaths and moors, usually with heather Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores tear drop shaped to cylindrical, smooth, amyloid (8-16) x (6-9) µm2, Q = (1.3-2.0). Basidia clavate, 2 and/or 4 spored. Gill edge cystidia irregularly clavate, with short finger like protrusions. Gill face cystidia absent. Edibility Inedible |