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| synonyms: Fädiger Helmling, Iodine Bonnet |
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| location: North America, Europe |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Grey to beige |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Conical or nearly so |
| stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter |
| flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy) |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood, Grows on plant material/manure |
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Mycena filopes (Bull. ex Fr.) Kummer non s. Pearson syn. M. vitilis (Fr.) Quél. s. Kühn., Rick. Fädiger Helmling Iodine Bonnet. Cap 1.5–2.5cm across, conico-convex becoming bell-shaped, grey-brown, paler and striate towards the margin. Stem 40–70 x 1–2mm, concolorous with cap or paler, whitish at apex, base covered in fine white hairs and rooting. Flesh thin, whitish. Smell like iodine. Gills crowded, whitish, greyish towards their base. Cheilocystidia sac-like with apical finger-like processes. Spore print white. Spores ellipsoid, often almond-shaped, amyloid, 7.5–10 x 4.2–7.2um. Basidia generally two-spored. Habitat in mixed woodland, usually attached to buried twigs. Season autumn. Common. Edibility unknown -avoid. Distribution, America and Europe.
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