Collared Mosscap
Scientific Name:
Rickenella swartzii
Synonyms:
A small and delicate fungus with a flattened or funnel-shaped cap that is found growing in troops in grasslands, usually with moss.
Confusion Species:
Height:
Cap Diameter (mm):
5-10mm
Cap or Bracket Thickness (mm):
Stem Height (mm):
20-40mm
Stem Diameter (mm):
1-2mm
Distribution:
Frequent from Summer till Winter.
Habitat:
On grasslands often with moss.
Micro Habitat:
Cap:
Initially convex, flattening and finally depressed, pallid-brown or ochraceous-cream with a darker centre, striate when moist.
Flesh:
Cap flesh is very thin and cream, stem flesh is cream, hollow and fragile.
Gills:
Deeply decurrent, pallid, broad and distant.
Spores:
Stem:
More or less equal, ring absent, finely downy, pallid ochraceous, violaceous at the apex, slender.
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Additional Notes:
Inedible.