Plants and animals of Pointfield

Small pale apricot-coloured funnel up to 4 cm in diameter but outline generally irregular; with mottled apricot / cream coloured cap with inrolled margin and concave centre; mottling and blotching most clearly developed towards the edge; surface dry and smooth. Gills pale concolourous with cap; dense, strongly decurrent and unbranched. Stem short and off-white ; often not quite central. Spore print white. Spores small, subspherical; warty; 3.7-4.5 x 3.2-3.9 um, mean = 4.2 x 3.6 um, N = 10; Q = 1.2. No cystidia.

Like Lepista flaccida but a paler colour with strong blotching around the margins, a white spore print, and its spores are slightly more spherical.

Occuring in deep woody debris and litter underneath holly tree and in close proximity to Clitopygus nebularis