Panaeolus speciosus Orton Schaf-Düngerling. Cap 2–7cm across, conical to convex, buff or dull brown at first becoming more greyish with darker olivaceous-brown zone near the margin, tinged ochraceous or tawny at the centre, drying greyish or buff, cracking. Stem 70–175 x 2–5mm, whitish tinged tawny or greyish-pink, base dusted white. Flesh concolorous with cap, hollow in stem. Smell faint, mushroomy. Gills adnate, clay-buff becoming mottled blackish. Spore print blackish. Spores angular lemon-shaped, 14–20 x 8–10 x 10–12um. Habitat on horse or sheep dung. Season late summer to autumn. Uncommon. Edibility unknown-avoid. Found In Europe.
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