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Mycena pseudoinclinata.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Mycena pseudoinclinata Mushroom
Ref No: 8422
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Brown, Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Conical or nearly so
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy), Flesh granular or brittle
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood

Mycena pseudoinclinata Smith Cap 1.5-2.5cm across, obtusely cone-shaped to bell-shaped, with the margin sometimes becoming plane and often splitting; slightly reddish gray-brown, darker at the center, becoming lighter toward the whitish margin; smooth, moist, striate. Gills ascending adnate, close to subdistant; white or pale gray, sometimes with a red tinge. Stem 25-60 x 1.5-3mm, pale above, tawny brown below. Flesh fragile, thicker on disc; grayish to white. Odor slightly mealy. Taste slightly mealy. Spores broadly ellipsoid, strongly amyloid, 8-11 x 5-6µ. Deposit white. Habitat growing in dense tufts on decaying wood. Found in eastern North America. Season April-November. Edibility not known -avoid. Comment This mushroom differs from Mycena inclinata (above) in that the cystidia have smaller, fewer, and less distinct projections, and it has a larger spore quotient.

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