Description
Mycena inclinata (Fr.) Quél. Buntstieliger Helmling Mycène incliné Clustered Bonnet. Cap 2–3cm across, conical expanding to bell-shaped with prominent umbo, bay, darker and lined towards centre, lighter in colour when dry, margin slightly overhanging the gills giving a delicately scalloped appearance. Stem 50–100 x 2–4mm, whitish at apex deepening to dark red-brown towards the base which is covered in fine white down. Flesh thin, whitish. Taste mild, smell mealy or rancid. Gills adnate, whitish becoming flesh-pink. Cheilocystidia clavate, the apex covered with relatively long filiform irregular processes. Spore print white. Spores ovoid, amyloid, 8–9 x 6–7um. Habitat in dense tufts on oak stumps. Season late summer to autumn. Frequent. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe (source R. Phillips).