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Conocybe tenera

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Mushrooms

By Roger Phillips

Published 2006

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Conocybe tenera (Schaeff.) Fayod (illustrated 45% life size) Cap 1–4cm across, bluntly conical at first, expanding bell-shaped; ochre-brown or cinnamon, drying more yellowish. Stem 50–100×4–7mm; whitish, flushed with cap colour; fragile, soon hollow, finely powdered appearance to surface. Flesh concolorous with cap; thin; smell mushroomy. Gills adnate, crowded; whitish, then cinnamon. Spores 8.5–14.5×5–8¼, ovate. Spore print bright yellow-brown. Cheilocystidia skittle-shaped, head 2.5–5¼ in diameter. Habitat amongst grass in woods and fields; late spring to early winter. Frequent. Not edible.

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