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. |