Simocybe centunculus

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Simocybe centunculus

15 September 2025 Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Cap

Convex, smooth, margin lined, yellowish brown, drying pale, to about 2.5 cm across

Gills

Adnexed, fairly distant, pale brown

Stem

Fibrous, base slightly expanded, pale brown

Flesh

Thin, brownish

Smell

Indistinct

Taste

Indistinct

Season

Autumn

Distribution

Rarely reported

Habitat

On dead wood from deciduous trees, favouring beech

Spore Print

Brown

Microscopic Features

Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (6.5-8) x (4-5) µm2. Gill edge cystidia cylindrical, sometimes with expanded tips.

Edibility

Inedible

Simocybe centunculus

Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 15 September 2025 Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Simocybe centunculus

15 September 2010 Ebernoe Common, West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Simocybe centunculus

15 September 2010 Ebernoe Common, West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.