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@ MushroomBot
2025-02-11 14:46:08
Mycena filopes
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Ecology: Saprobic on terrestrial forest debris in both hardwood and conifer forests; usually growing gregariously but sometimes found growing scattered or even solitary; fall (or over winter in warmer climates); widely distributed, at least as a species group, in North America.
Cap: Up to 2.5 cm across; conical to broadly conical, sometimes becoming bell-shaped; dry; when young with a hoary sheen, but often more or less bald at maturity; pale grayish brown, fading to grayish with a slightly darker center; the margin lined nearly to the center.
Gills: Attached to the stem by a tooth; close or nearly distant; whitish or pale grayish.
Stem: 5-12 cm long; 1-3 mm thick; fragile in age; equal; hollow; finely hoary at first, but soon bald; pale above and brownish to grayish below, but sometimes with faint bluish or lilac shades; basal mycelium hairy and white.
Flesh: Insubstantial; pallid or grayish.
Odor and Taste: Odor usually of iodine but sometimes only weakly so, or not distinctive; taste not distinctive.
Spore Print: White.
Microscopic Features: Spores 7-11 x 5-7 ; weakly to moderately amyloid; elliptical; smooth. Basidia 2- or 4-spored. Cheilocystidia abundant; up to 25 x 15 ; saccate, with numerous spine-like projections over the apex. Pleurocystidia absent. Pileipellis a cutis, with the uppermost elements diverticulate to verrucose.
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