Mycena epipterygia    Scop.) Gray 

common name(s) : Yellowleg Bonnet, Fern Mycena 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Mycenaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Marasmiaceae/Collybieae  

synonyms: Mycena epipterygia-epipterygia, Mycena epipterygia-pelliculosa 

edibility : discard

photo gallery of Mycena epipterygia
photo gallery of Mycena epipterygia potential confusions with Mycena epipterygia toxicity of Mycena epipterygia genus Mycena  

The cap is yellowish to whitish. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky.

The stem is lemon yellow to greenish yellow, without ring.

The flesh is unchanging; its taste is mealy, mild or mouldy; the odour is mouldy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are whitish, adnate to decurrent, distant . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows amongst moss or damp litter of heaths and woods, on a rather acid-damp soil.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 1.5 cm (between 0.7 and 3 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 4 and 12 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 2 mm (between 0.7 and 4 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : small species; yellow-grey cap, covered with removable slime, and with a striate margin; slimy pale lemon-yellow stem; in the moss of woods

Mycena epipterygia is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Mycena epipterygia in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Mycena epipterygia in the forest of Rambouillet



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