Mycena epipterygia Scop.) Gray |
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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.
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 . | ||
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