Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap 1.0-2.5 cm in diameter; campanulate to domed in shape; dark chestnut brown in colour but drying to a lighter brown and blackening with age; surface matt to slightly waxy. Gills deeply adnate with finely toothed edge; light fawn in colour but quickly turning black; unbranched. Stem brown, 3.5-6.0 mm in length and 2.8-3.4 mm in diameter; cylindrical without ring; upper part with a fine white bloom and base also with fine white fibrils; fibrose and silky in texture. Spore print black. Spores lemon-shaped with a clear germ pore at one end; 10-11 um in length by 7-8 um in diameter. The slightly smaller spores and the concentric drying pattern to pale beige of the cap distinguish this from P. foenisecii

In the grass paths and meadow in July and September.