felted twiglet tubaria help

[diggleken]

Hello all,
apologies, not much detail with this - briefly spotted on a walk for the morning paper.............but small, about 2cm cap width, only two or three (fused caps too) on soil under beech, not twigs or other debris, so Tubaria conspersa seems a good bet.
light brown gills, adnexed too point me that way also.

Grateful for any help,ta
Ken

[Ditiola]

Hi
If you do not get any other reply's it is probably because you have found a LBJ (little Brown Job) and they are usually difficult with a specimen and a microscope and impossible from a photograph.

Peter

[diggleken]

Thanks Peter, I quite understand!
Just to follow the birding analogy further, I just hoped that maybe the features you can see, my observations, paltry as they are, and jizz of the thing, even as an LBJ, might spark a positive response with genus.
Ah well,
cheers
Ken

[Ditiola]

Ken
All we have to go on from the photo is size and the cap surface texture.

Size
It is possible that you have a stunted specimen of something that normally grows bigger!

Cap Surface
The cap surface texture does not look like Tubaria. It looks more like the surface texture of The Deceiver (Laccaria laccata), but this usually grows much bigger, so I think a microscope is needed.

Peter

Peter

[mollisia]

Hello,

yesm Laccaria laccata came also to my kind, but the cap surface would possible point more towards Laccaria bicolor.

best regards,
Andreas

[diggleken]

I dismissed laccata as it is well known to me, but then again, it is the deceiver - bicolor might well be right Andreas, it does have quite a sort of grainy rough cap, broad distant gills and fibrous stipe, woolyish at the base, (as laccata can!) but never mind, needs microscopy, so too late now, have to go back. hey ho.
Thanks again to everyone for pointers.
Cheers
Ken