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Mycena picta -rare!
This was the real gem of my day... tiny and colored much like the fallen leaves they are not easy to spot. I was bent down looking at something entirely different when I saw it. Easily ID'd with it's grooved cap and highly unusual gill arrangement (see next photo)
Cap 3-7 mm across and 2-5 mm high, cylindrical, not expanding with age, generally depressed at the centre, sulcate, translucent-striate, glabrous, greyish or violaceous grey to dark brown with blackish grey striae, the margin ochraceous or fulvous. Gills 18-24 reaching the stem, broader than the length, horizontal to decurrent, pale grey or pale buff, edge pale fulvous. Stem 20-38 x 1-3 mm, cartilaginous, cylindrical, equal, glabrous, yellow-brown or fulvous or black brown at the apex, darker towards.. more
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