Unidentified mycena? - ID help appreciated

Lancashire Lad · #1 (**permalink**) 27-06-2009, 11:46 PM

Found today, a solitary specimen growing from a very thin layer of leaf litter/soil, covering woodchip.

Cap size about 1cm stipe height about 7cm.

My best guesstimate would be Grooved Bonnet - Mycena polygramma, but I'm probably way off the mark.

As it was a single specimen, I didn't uproot it for a gill shot.

Any possible IDpointers appreciated.

Regards
Mike.

flaxton · #2 (**permalink**) 27-06-2009, 11:51 PM

I could be wrong but I think it is more likely to be a Coprinus rather than a Mycena.
Mal

FungiJohn · #3 (**permalink**) 27-06-2009, 11:57 PM

Yes, Coprinus and probably Coprinus plicatilis
John

Lancashire Lad · #4 (**permalink**) 28-06-2009, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by flaxton

I could be wrong but I think it is more likely to be a Coprinus rather than a Mycena.
Mal

You may well be right Mal. Looking in Jordan, it does seem to have a passing resemblance to Coprinus leiocephalus. (Or is that more wishful thinking

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Lancashire Lad · #5 (**permalink**) 28-06-2009, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by FungiJohn

Yes, Coprinus and probably Coprinus plicatilis
John

Probably a much better suggestion than mine John

(As according to Jordan, C.plicatilis is a spring to autumn fruiter - and C.leiocephalus is a late summer to winter fruiter.

Regards
Mike.

flaxton · #6 (**permalink**) 28-06-2009, 09:43 AM

The only problem is that C.plicatilis is a grass land species and C.leiocephalus is the woodland lookalike so I would go with the latter even though slightly out of season.

Mal

flaxton · #7 (**permalink**) 28-06-2009, 11:05 AM

or if you really feel the urge to measure the spores it could be Parasola kuehneri (once thought of as a small spored variety of P plicatillis)

Mal

FungiJohn · #8 (**permalink**) 28-06-2009, 11:11 PM

It certainly is confusing at times

John

Chris Yeates · #9 (**permalink**) 28-06-2009, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad

Probably a much better suggestion than mine John

(As according to Jordan, C.plicatilis is a spring to autumn fruiter - and C.leiocephalus is a late summer to winter fruiter.

Regards
Mike.

ermm . . . doesn't "autumn" come between "late summer to winter"

no way to ID a fungus methinks

Chris

Lancashire Lad · #10 (**permalink**) 29-06-2009, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

ermm . . . doesn't "autumn" come between "late summer to winter"....

errm . . . yes it does

But having found it this last week, and we are in early summer, I would have thought it more likely to be the spring-autumn fruiter, rather than the autumn winter fruiter. Only because summer comes between spring and autumn, and not between autumn-winter.

(Don't take me too seriously here - Lancastrian humour!).

But I also take on board Mal's point, as it was found in a wood, rather than grassland - which, of the two species , should point to C.leiocephalus.

I was just trying to get pointers towards ID for future reference, and to learn a little bit more. I do appreciate that with most of these things (even with a gill shot) microscopy would be the only way to be definite.

Regards,
Mike.