Spore-print: white, but because it is so small it is often difficult to see.
Spores: medium sized, hyaline under the microscope, ellipsoid, not blueing in solutions of iodine, and 8-10 × 4 µm in size.
Marginal cystidia: clavate or ventricose, hyaline and smooth.
Facial cystidia: absent.
Illustrations: T. palustris LH 83.
Galerina paludosa (Fries) Kühner
Cap: width 10-20 mm. Stem: width 3-5 mm; length 50-90 mm.
Description:
Cap: conico-convex expanding slightly but retaining the central umbo, striate to half-way, sand-colour to red-brown, hygrophanous, minutely floccose because of remnants of veil distributed over its surface, but soon becoming smooth.
Stem: long, buried amongst the Sphagnum, red-brown and flecked with white fibrils, except at the finely hairy apex, the fibrils typically form a distinct but easily lost ring.