Illustrations: Hvass 66; NB 1331; WD 202.
Plate 22. Fleshy fungi: Spores white and borne on gills
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Mycena sanguinolenta (Fries) Kummer Small bleeding mycena
Cap: width 10-17 mm. Stem: width 2-4 mm; length 50-80 mm.
Description:
Cap: bell-shaped or conical expanding only slightly with age and so remaining umbonate, reddish-brown, striate to the margin from the darker apex and blotched age with red-brown spots.
Stem: pale reddish brown, very slender, fragile, woolly at the base and exuding a red-brown juice when broken.
Gills: adnate, fairly distant, whitish to flesh-colour with a dark red-brown edge and not noticeably becoming blotched with red-brown.