Tiny One for ID (Possibly Collybia sp. ? )

[Lancashire Lad]

Found today growing amongst a pile of raked up and rotting herbage in mixed woodland.
Possibly rotting bracken stem substrate, but not at all sure.

All were very tiny, max cap diameter 2-3mm, max stipe length about 12mm

Very pale orangy/pink tinge to caps, with noticably darker orange around margins & stipes.





Never seen anything like these before, so fingers crossed that an ID from the photos will be possible.

Any ID suggestions/proposals very welcome.

Regards,
Mike.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad

Found today growing amongst a pile of raked up and rotting herbage in mixed woodland.
Possibly rotting bracken stem substrate, but not at all sure.

All were very tiny, max cap diameter 2-3mm, max stipe length about 12mm

Very pale orangy/pink tinge to caps, with noticably darker orange around margins & stipes.




Never seen anything like these before, so fingers crossed that an ID from the photos will be possible.

Any ID suggestions/proposals very welcome.

Regards,
Mike.

tiny? . . . . TINY!!! - sorry Mike but if fungi were mammals, this would be the size of a Labrador

be useful to know whether the spores were amyloid or not . . . (sorry)

Chris

[Ken Burgess]

Hi Mike

I assume from the photo that these are growing on a dead bracken stem, which would point to Mycena pterigena. (This species grows on decaying ferns, including Pteridium aquilinum.)

Ken

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Ken Burgess

Hi Mike

I assume from the photo that these are growing on a dead bracken stem, which would point to Mycena pterigena. (This species grows on decaying ferns, including Pteridium aquilinum.)

Ken

bang on Ken! and shame on me for not carefully reading all of Mike's original post

this is a species I have never seen, and I am very envious (I look at bracken a lot as well)

note to self - must try harder . . .

Chris

[flaxton]

Nice find and nice photos Mike. I have found pterigena a few times but never managed to get a good photo.

Mal

[Lancashire Lad]

Thanks Ken & Everyone.

That's a great result. - I found these tiny things particularly photogenic, and was less than convinced that a full species ID would be possible just from photos.

Originally Posted by flaxton

Nice find and nice photos Mike. I have found pterigena a few times but never managed to get a good photo. Mal

Thanks Mal - With the exception of the gill shot, which is a single image, all the rest are stacked with between 5 - 8 separate images in each stack.

Regards,
Mike.