Species: Clustered Brittlestem (Psathyrella multipedata)
Family: Gilled Mushrooms (PSATHYRELLACEAE)
Category: Fungi
Location: One Sighting
A. Fungi
More extensive information on fungi can be found in a separate blog post.
B. Gilled Mushrooms (PSATHYRELLACEAE)
These are dark-spored agarics with soft, fragile fruiting bodies. The family includes the inkcaps. Many of them deliquesce, that is to say after maturity the gills and caps dissolve by autodigestion into a black inky fluid.
C. Clustered Brittlestem (Psathyrella multipedata)
Clusters of this mushroom, that has pale cream to beige coloured caps, are found in dense posy-like bunches. The stems share a single foot as a common base.
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Clustered Brittlestem
The stems of Clustered Brittlestem share a single foot as a common base.
