Conocybe tenera (Fries) Fayod Brown cone-cap
Cap: width 10-20 mm. Stem: width 3-6 mm; length 70-100 mm.
Description:
Cap: very hygrophanous, sand colour, orange-yellow or ochraceous brown tinted cinnamon when fresh but drying uniformly yellow-ochre, thin, fragile, striate when moist, but soon non-striate as water is lost from the cap.
Stem: tall, slender and similarly coloured to the cap, straight, fragile, minutely striate from the top to bottom with what appears to be minute powdery granules.
Gills: adnate then becoming free, crowded, ochraceous and finally cinnamon-rust in colour.
Flesh: russet when moist but rapidly becoming yellowish as the fruit-body dries.
Spore-print: rust-brown.
Spores: long, ellipsoid, with thick, bright yellow-brown walls and distinct germ-pores at their ends when seen under the microscope, and over 10 µm in length (11-12 × 6 µm.)
Marginal cystidia: pinheaded or skittle-shaped.