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| synonyms: Dehnbarer Helmling, Mycène des fougères, Yellowleg Bonnet |
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| location: Europe |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: White to cream, Yellow, Grey to beige |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Conical or nearly so |
| stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter |
| flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass), Mushroom slimy or sticky |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides
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Mycena epipterygia (Scop. ex Fr.) S.F. Gray, Dehnbarer Helmling Mycène des fougères Yellowleg Bonnet. Cap 1–2cm across, convex expanding to bell-shaped, fawn, especially at centre, with yellowish tinge, having a lined appearance when moist, margin often delicately toothed, covered with a viscid, easily removed skin. Stem 40–70 x 1–2mm, pale yellow and viscid. Flesh very thin. Taste mild, smell slight, not distinctive. Gills subdecurrent, pale pink, edge glutinous, can be removed by a needle when fresh. Cheilocystidia clavate covered with irregular knobbly sometimes branched processes. Spore print white to pale buff. Spores ellipsoid, amyloid, 8–10 x 4.5–5um. Habitat amongst grass or moss in woods or heaths. Season autumn. Common. Edible but not worthwhile -avoid. Found In Europe. |
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Tony Wharton (United Kingdom) - 26 October 2010
Photographed in Monkwood, Worcestershire, on 23rd October 2010
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