Plants and animals of Pointfield

Small, low mushroom; cap to 20 mm diameter, conical with rounded umbo and inturned margin; orange-brown in colour; surface finely scurfy in outer part (universal veil remnants). White cortina fibres cover the gills in fresh individuals. Gills cinnamon coloured and not dense; adnate / emarginate; Stem white; to 50 x 5 mm; weakly bulbous at base; remnants of white fibrous ring usually evident; remainder of stem with white fibrils that are the remainder of the cortina. Without distinct smell. Spore print cinnamon brown. Spores small, ovoid and amygdaloid without a germ pore; surface distinctly granular; 6.6-7.5 x 4.3-5.0 um (mean = 7.0 x 4.7 um: Q = 1.5). No cystidia.

Identification tentative; differs from C. hemitrichus in having more spaced gills, less conical profile and less scaly surface. Its pores have a more granular surface.

Small patch of individuals near damson tree.