Mycena atropapillata Kühner & Maire 1938

Biotope

It is a rare fungi that grow in autumn in dry grasslands, most often prefers steppes, preferably on basal soils.

Macroscopic and microscopic features

Klobouk:  10-15 mm in average, at first conical, later convex, papillar, shiny, hygropahnous, grey-brownish, with edge lighter, papilla always dark coloured.

Lupeny:  at first white, later light grey with edge concolorous.

Třeň: 20-50 x 1,5-2,5 mm,  cylindrical, shiny, sometimes a bit pruinose at the apex, in the upper part whitish, in the lower part grey-brownish, rooting.

Dužnina: with neutral taste and smell.

Microscopy: spores 7,9-9,7 x 4,8-5,7 μm, broadly ellipsoid, apical, smooth, inamyloid. Cheilocystids are  21-49 x 2,5-7,5 μm, narrow, sometimes branched. 

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