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| location: North America |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Brown |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Convex to shield shaped |
| stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter, Simple stem |
| flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass) |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows on the ground |
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Laccaria montana Singer Cap 0.5-3.5cm across, convex becoming flatter, then upturned with a tiny umbo; pale flesh-pink to pinkish brown; striate-furrowed at margin. Gills subdecurrent, thick, distant; pale pink. Stem 30-50 x 3-5mm; striate-fibrous; pinkish brown. Flesh white. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores subglobose, 7.5-11.5(13) x 6-11ì; spines 0.4-1ì long. Deposit white. Basidia 4spored. Habitat stream banks and grassy areas, often outside woodlands. Found in high alpine and subalpine areas in western North America. Season August-October. Edibility not known -avoid. |
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