Pholiota myosotis (Fr. ex Fr.) Sing. syn. Naucoria myosotis (Fr. ex Fr.) Kummer syn. Flammula myosotis (Fr. ex Fr.) Sing. Graubrauner Schüppling. Cap 1.5–3cm across, convex becoming flattened or irregularly wavy, smooth, olive-brown, viscid. Stem 70–110 x 2–5mm, elongated and fragile, rooting, dirty yellowish at apex, concolorous with cap below. Flesh whitish with yellow tinge, becoming hollow in stem. Smell slightly mealy. Gills dingy clay- to olive-brown with a paler edge. Cheilocystidia, thin-walled, hyaline, bottle-shaped; pleurocystidia clavate with mucronate apex, staining deeply in aniline blue in lactic acid. Spore print snuff brown. Spores almond-shaped, smooth, 14.5–19 x 7–9um. Habitat in moist peaty ground usually in sphagnum. Season autumn. Occasional. Edibility unknown –avoid. Found In Europe. |