Gymnopus villosipes

Appearance

Pileus
Cap 1.5-3.0 cm broad, convex, expanding to nearly plane, sometimes depressed to umbilicate at the disc; margin incurved, becoming decurved, often striate-wrinkled approx. half the distance from the margin to the disc, sometimes torn or eroded at maturity; surface smooth, hygrophanous, dark-brown fading to dingy tan; flesh pallid, thin; odor and taste mild.

Lamellae
Gills adnexed, sometimes seceding and appearing free, close, moderately broad, at first greyish-brown becoming dull light-brown to buff, the edges lighter than the faces.

Stipe
Stipe 2-5 cm tall, 1-3 mm thick, slender, pliant, straight to curved, round, flattened to grooved, more or less equal; surface variable: when fresh and moist, medium brown, pubescent, the hairs sometimes appressed, when dry, dingy-buff at the apex, greyish-brown at the base, more conspicuously pubescent; veil absent.

Spores
Spores 6-8.5 x 3.5-4 µm, elliptical, smooth, nonamyloid; spore print whitish.

Naming

Marasmius villosipes

Habitat

Gregarious to clustered under conifers, often fruiting in large masses on needle duff, occasionally in wood chips; fruiting from late fall to mid-winter.