Mycena pelianthina (Fr.) Quél. Schwarzzähniger Helmling Blackedge Bonnet. Cap 2–4cm across, bell-shaped with a broad umbo expanding to almost flat, brownish with violaceous tint drying pale buff. Stem 50–60 x 4–8mm, violaceous brown, fibrous at base. Flesh thin, at margin, white. Taste mild, smell faintly radishy. Gills adnate, distant, violaceous with darker, sometimes uneven edge. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia thin-walled, cylindric to slightly fusoid. Spore print white. Spores ellipsoid, amyloid, 5–7 x 2.5–3um. Habitat in beech litter. Season summer to autumn.Uncommon. Said to be edible but not worthwhile -avoid. Distribution, America and Europe. |