Two For ID Help Please.

Lancashire Lad · #1 (**permalink**) 24-05-2009, 12:14 AM

Found today: -

This on a decaying Beech stump. I think it may be young Calocera cornea?

And this growing from soil adjacent to a rotting log. As will be pretty obvious by now, I'm useless at these small brown things.

(Unfortunately had an SD card malfunction & lost the close up & gill shots)

Any help with ID's appreciated.
Regards
Mike.

NickCantle · #2 (**permalink**) 24-05-2009, 01:35 AM

I'd agree with Calocera cornea Mike.

The latter trio are almost certainly Conocybe in my opinion- the ring is a massive characteristic. I have no further info on species though, as I avoid it like the plague

Nick

EDIT; I also thought of Galerina for the second, but something pulled me away from that suggestion.

cybershot · #3 (**permalink**) 24-05-2009, 06:50 AM

I think that's a good call Nick and judging by it's appearance earlier in the year and the slightly grooved margin to the cap I would opt for C. aporos on macroscopic evidence alone, but, as you infer, there are a good few similar Conocybe species distinguishable only by microscopic characteristics.

David

Lancashire Lad · #4 (**permalink**) 24-05-2009, 07:17 PM

Thanks Nick & David.

I went back to the site today, but some idiot had stood on them

Having been pointed to Conocybe aporos, and looking at info in Jordan and on the web, and having seen what remained of the gills today, (crowded & adnexed), I think that's spot on. (It certainly doesn't seem to fit as well to any of the descriptions/pics. of other Conocybe's in Jordan or Philips).

Regards
Mike.