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

synonyms: Dunkler Helmling
Mycena uracea Mushroom
Ref No: 8436
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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
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on the ground, Grows on plant material/manure

Mycena uracea. Pearson, Possibly syn M megaspora Kauff. Dunkler Helmling. Cap 1–3cm across, conical to convex, grooved with prominent umbo, grey-brown with darker, almost black, centre. Stem 20–40 x 2–3mm, grey-brown, base often with fine white hairs and rooting. Flesh thin at centre, whitish. Taste slightly radishy, smell none. Gills adnate with decurrent tooth, white then pinkish-grey. Cheilocystidia pyriform with warted apex. Spore print white. Spores broadly ellipsoid, amyloid, 8–10 x 6–7.5um. Habitat with heather, especially on burnt heaths. Season autumn. Occasional. Not edible. Found In Europe and probably north America.

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