Description:
Small delicate agaric.
[b]Cap:[/b] Brown with olivaceous tinge, pallid towards the margin. Conical at first then campanulate. Silky and striate. Flesh greyish-brown, thin and exuding carrot red juice.
[b]Stem:[/b] Yellowish brown, more reddish at base. Smooth or faintly pruinose at apex. Very slender, often bent. More or less equal and no ring. Flesh greyish brown, fragile, hollow and exuding carrot red juice when broken.
[b]Gills:[/b] Whitish then yellowed with orange-brown spooting, adnate with decurrent tooth, broad, close.
[b] Spores:[/b] White, smooth, ellipsoid staining blue in iodine.
*Edible but insubstantial*
Habitat:
Infrequent, August to November found growing in small troops amongst leaf litter and twigs of broad-leafed (beech) woods.
Additional Notes:
Can be distinguished from M. inclinata by the carrot-red juice produced when
damaged, lack of the delicately scalloped edge to the caps and its growing habit; more likely to be trooping in amongst litter and twigs than tufted on logs and stumps. [i](With reference to, and thanks for, Fungus Ken's comments in the forum)[/i]
