White waxcup

Description:

a small mushroom with an umbonate cap 4–5 centimetres (1.6–2 in) in diameter, initially conical and later flattening to almost flat. It is smooth and ivory- to pure white in colour with a ivory umbo. The cap is textured with radial fibres, along which it may split, with the gills dividing between the split. The hollow white stipe is 5–6 cm (2–2.4 in) high and 0.3–0.6 cm thick and may be swollen at the base. The white gills are adnexed or free, and thick or distant with even margins.

Habitat:

Amongst moist leaf litter , moist moss and growing from dirt

Notes:

It was initially described as Hygrophorus mavis by New Zealand mycologist Greta Stevenson in 1962 and later as Hygrocybe mavis by Egon Horak in 1971, before being placed in the genus Humidicutis by Australian Tony Young in 1997