Help with a beautiful Omphalina/Arrhenia

NickCantle · #1 (**permalink**) 25-10-2008, 09:58 PM

It's because of species like this, that I pay so much attention to mossy areas. A beautiful little funnel, but I can't find out what the hell it is!

I've looked in FOS Vol.3 at the small ones and the closest I can get is Omphalina sphagnicola, but I'm adamant that the jizz is wrong. The striations of this species must be rather distinctive. I looked at Omphalina obatra in Courtecuisse and Duhem but the gills aren't right.

Growing in a Pinus plantation in moss and liverwort.

Haaayyylllppppp!!!!

All help and comments and appreciated.

Nick

fairplay · #2 (**permalink**) 25-10-2008, 10:15 PM

This is Rickenella swartzii again Nick, where the local Woodpeckers have eaten the brown dots in the middle, - the little beggers.

Neil.

NickCantle · #3 (**permalink**) 25-10-2008, 10:20 PM

LOL funnily enough, that frequent occurrence isn't mentioned in FOS V.III..

I wonder why

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wildlifesnapper · #4 (**permalink**) 25-10-2008, 10:26 PM

It is ! It's on page 362.

fairplay · #5 (**permalink**) 25-10-2008, 10:36 PM

Have you looked at the spores Nick - O.sphagnicola spores are long, cylinder shaped as opposed to the ellipsoid shape of most of the other Omphalina's

I looked in an old Mitchell Beazley pocket guide to Mushrooms and he has listed an O.rustica that looks very similar to your photographs, but I've no idea what this would be called now.

Neil.

fairplay · #6 (**permalink**) 25-10-2008, 10:40 PM

Oh yes, it is on page 362, there's a big white drawing of it. !!

Neil.

NickCantle · #7 (**permalink**) 25-10-2008, 10:50 PM

To think that I looked

NickCantle · #8 (**permalink**) 26-10-2008, 09:54 AM

Spores are elliptical. 4 spored basidia (all of the genus are probably 4 spored

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Any takers?

flaxton · #9 (**permalink**) 26-10-2008, 10:52 PM

Why not griseopallida?

Mal

NickCantle · #10 (**permalink**) 26-10-2008, 11:00 PM

It was something I looked at but ruled out because the gills were more white than brown. It's the closest so far I reckon.

Is O. rustica a previous synonym for O. griseopallida?

EDIT; Just looked on the BC and I can't see any evidence that the two are associated. Why does FOS mention O. rustica at the bottom of the O. griseopallida entry? What does 'Imbach' mean?