Confirmation & ID Help Please

[Lancashire Lad]

Found today: -

No.1 - I'm thinking this is Moss Bell - Galerina hypnorum.
Growing in mossy/grassy moorland soil.
Cap diameter about 5mm, stipe height about 25-30mm.


No.2 - Can't suggest anything for this one.
Growing in same grassy/mossy area as No.1
Cap diameters about 25mm, stipe heights about 35mm.


No.3 - Vaguely like dry Pluteus cervinus, but not convinced. (Haven't seen them like this, or growing together in such numbers).
Growing on a fallen moorland Oak trunk
Caps about 20-25mm max. Stipes about 30-40mm in length.


Any confirmations / ID's / other, much appreciated.

Regards,
Mike.

[Chris Yeates]

hi Mike

you might be thinking Galerina hypnorum but Galerina needs careful microscopical examination for all but a very few species

indeed, Roy Watling in British Fungus Flora 7 says:

"Although widely figured in 'mushroom books' it is rather difficult to ascertain
the true identity of G. hypnorum. The concept followed herein is a small species with a hazel-centred yellow brown to brownish ochre cap, a few whitish flecks of veil when young, variable cystidia and slightly calyptrate spores with the mature spores slightly rugulose from the loosening perispore."

hence my comment above - can't see that perispore from this side of the Pennines, I'm afraid

second one possibly Entoloma sp. - what colour was the spore-print?

third - you say: "Vaguely like dry Pluteus cervinus, but not convinced. (Haven't seen them like this, or growing together in such numbers)." but, trust me you've never seen a Pluteus with adnate gills - they're free in Pluteus . . . .

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

#2 looks like an Entoloma

Chris just beat me to it I see ... and remember Entoloma is easy once you have a microscope and the most useful key ... Entoloma conferendum or all the others ...

[Lancashire Lad]

Thanks Chris & Melanie - Some you win, some you lose.

Regards,
Mike.