Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap to 15 mm diameter; domed to flat; brown or greyish with purplish tinge, and darker centrally; with radial striation evident over most of the disc; drying a paler grey. Gills pale cream colour; edge not coloured; walls not speckled; emarginate with decurrent tooth. Stalk darker more like cap in colour and darkening towards the base; up to 40 x 1.5 mm silky, not pruinose. Stem snaps; hollow with colourless fluid only. Base with relatively long fine white hyphae.  

Spore print white. Spores pip-shaped, small, colourless in KOH; amyloid and yellow-orange in Metzer’s 7.2-8.4 x 3.9-4.9 um, mean = 7.7 x 4.5 um, N = 20; Q = 1.7. Abundant long-necked lageniform cheilocystidia on gill edge; no pleurocystidia. Basidia 4-spored.

In short grass by pond and elsewhere.