Possible Entoloma comments appreciated

[watsthat]

Apart from my local colony of Scarlet Elf Cup, which has been outstanding this year, this is my first significant find of the year. Growing solitary in leaf and twig litter, could it be an Entoloma? One view shows flimsy ring remains which dropped off with handling and I am not sure if this would fit Entoloma. All comments very warmly appreciated.

Pete

[Chris Yeates]

could we see a spore print please, Pete?

cheers

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

It looks to me as if you are getting brownish spores of this, and it looks very like the Psathyrella spadiceogrisea that I found yesterday. Entoloma gills turn pinkish from the pink spores.

Melanie

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

It looks to me as if you are getting brownish spores of this, and it looks very like the Psathyrella spadiceogrisea that I found yesterday. Entoloma gills turn pinkish from the pink spores.

Melanie

P. spadiceogrisea for me also.

Andy

[Leif]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

It looks to me as if you are getting brownish spores of this, and it looks very like the Psathyrella spadiceogrisea that I found yesterday. Entoloma gills turn pinkish from the pink spores.

Melanie

+1. There's a lot of them about.

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by Leif

+1. There's a lot of them about.

Yes, I found some more today in a different place (I'm assuming these latest are Psathyrella spadiceogrisea, but will check them ... those forked pleurocystidia can be a bit hard to find, it took about 6 squashes yesterday before I found one ). Though there is not much else about here, just some Panaeolus fimicola yesterday, which at least is something, shows the grassland might just be warming up a bit. I'm still on the lookout for interesting grassland with access over it locally to me though ... most doesn't have rights of way over, let alone open access. I've got oodles of open access woodland right on the doorstep, so I might have to switch allegiance. Or somehow become invisible and trespass ....

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

. . . . Though there is not much else about here . . . .

I bet every fallen conifer branch round there, if rolled over would produce some interesting resupinates to puzzle over (many would be new to the county ); have a look at pine-cone microfungi, well covered in Ellis and Ellis I using Dave Minter's work as its basis . . .

PS - I wonder if one of your P. spadiceogrisea sites was near where I found it in your neck of the woods last year (grid ref SE948891) . . .

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

I bet every fallen conifer branch round there, if rolled over would produce some interesting resupinates to puzzle over (many would be new to the county ); have a look at pine-cone microfungi, well covered in Ellis and Ellis I using Dave Minter's work as its basis . . .

No. They got snowed into oblivion this winter. There is mycelium around though, but that could be anything ... some is now stacked in my garden (for research of course ) Even Trametes got almost totally annihilated.

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

PS - I wonder if one of your P. spadiceogrisea sites was near where I found it in your neck of the woods last year (grid ref SE948891) . . .

Chris

No, at Hackness, and t'other at Wykeham village, but not that far away, as spores fly.

Melanie

[watsthat]

Very sorry for the delay, I`ve been a bit busy but you all seem to have kept yourselves occupied
Anyway; I had another look at the fungus in question and although it had finished sporulating, there was definite evidence of dark brown spores remaining on the gills. So Psathyrella does look probable.
Good call Mel and thank to all for valuable discussion.





Cheers

Pete