Appearance
*Cap: 1 – 5 cm across, obtusely conic, grayish brown, not hygrophanous, becoming campanulate in age, margin adorned with white toothlike partial veil fragments when young, flesh thin.⤷ Gills: adnate to adnexed close to crowded, one or two tiers of intermediate gills, pale gray, acquiring a mottled, blackish appearance in age, with whitish edges.
⤷ Spores: 12 - 18 x 7-10 µm, elliptical, smooth, with an apical pore, spore print black.
⤷ Stipe: 6 – 12 cm by 2 – 4 mm, gray-brown to reddish brown, darker where handled, paler toward the apex, fibrous and pruinose.
⤷ Odor: Mild.
⤷ Taste: Unappetizing.
⤷ Microscopic features: Basidia 4-sterigmate; abruptly clavate. Cheilocystidia abundant; subcylindric, often subcapitate or capitate.
Naming
This mushroom is the type species for the genus ''Panaeolus''.
Habitat
Occurring singly, gregariously, or caespitosely on cow/horse dung, moose droppings, and in pastures. Widely distributed in North America in Spring, Summer, and Fall and through the Winter in warmer climates. It can be found in countries including Canada , the United States , the Caribbean , Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, France, The Netherlands, North Macedonia, Mexico, Norway, Slovenia, South Africa, Uganda, China, Iran, Lithuania, Kuwait, and the Philippines.References:
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