Mycena megaspora

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Mycena megaspora

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