Plants and animals of Pointfield

Solitary dark coloured mushroom with conical cap 20 mm in diamter; surface coarsely squamous at centre becoming finer towards edge; brownish with a distinct dark blue tinge. Gills adnexed, flesh-coloured with pale, finely serrated edges. Stem 60 mm long by 2.5mm wide; cylindrical and smooth; steel blue in colour with a white fibrous base. Spore print peach-coloured. Spores heterodiametric with 5-8 faces and prominent apiculus; 8.4-10.2 x 6.8-8.6 um, mean = 9.5 x 7.6 um, N = 21. Gill edge sterile, with sausage-shaped cheilocystidia; no pleurocystidia seen. No hyphal clamps found.

Waxcap meadow.