Tiny salmon mycena with a yellow band at the edge

Mycena pterigena has a somewhat isolated position in the genus being the only member of sect. Pterigenae (Maas Geest.) Maas Geest. It should be easy to identify because of the occurence on decaying fern stalks, the small size, the pink colours of pileus and stipe, and the pink coloured lamellar edge. Occasionally some white specimens may be found growing among normally coloured basidiomata.