Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap open and flat when fully grown; reddish brown, darker towards centre with non-striate margin; 31.5 mm diameter; hygrophanous and drying to a straw colour; small individuals retain veil remnants around the rim. Gills adnate and rather well spaced with 4 cycles of gill lengths; pale flesh coloured when fresh turning a light tobacco brown with age; covered by a white, thread-like veil when young, Stem reddish brown, reaching 30 x 4.5 mm; with a distinct remnant ring; above ring the stem is paler; below it is fibrous and floccose with veil remnants especially in smaller developing individuals; hollow. Base of stem firmly attached to wood with fine white hyphae. Spore print an olivaceous yellow colour. Spores bean-shaped to ellipsoidal, with a small apiculus and no germ pore; olivaceous in colour and non-amyloid; surface smooth; interior with a large oil droplet in some; 6.7-8.8 x 4.1-5.1 um, mean = 7.4 x 4.6 um, N = 20; Q = 1.6. Basidia 4-spored. Gill edge sterile - formed of cylindrical cheilocystidia with inflated heads; often slightly kinked. No pleurocystidia.

Differs from Turbaris furfuracea in habit (growing from log rather than in grass), presence of a distinct remnant ring, disc without radial banding at margin  and spore-print colour.

Growing from a well decayed branch underneath the oak tree [Jan 23] and under the cut-leaf beech [Dec. 23]