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| synonyms: Büscheliger Faserling, Clustered Brittlestem |
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| location: North America |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Conical or nearly so |
| stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter |
| flesh: Flesh granular or brittle |
| spore colour: Light to dark brown |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides
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Psathyrella multipedata (Peck) Smith Büscheliger Faserling Clustered Brittlestem. Fruit bodies growing in very dense tufts of up to seventy individuals arising from a common base. Cap 1–3cm across, conical-convex, dingy clay-brown drying or ageing cream, striate. Stem 70–120 x 2–4mm, whitish. Flesh thin, whitish. Taste and smell not distinctive. Gills dark purplish-brown. Cystidia thin-walled, narrowly fusoid with somewhat swollen base. Spore print dark brown. Spores elliptic, 6.5–10 x 3.5–4.5um. Habitat amongst grass in open deciduous woodland and roadsides. Season summer. Rare. Edibility unknown -avoid. Distribution, America and Europe. |
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