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Small yellow sand mushrooms

Description:

Small delicate yellow mushrooms with striated pileus; cone to bell shaped; open yellow gills (adnate or notched?); slender yellow stipe darker towards the bottom with some tiny hairs. 30mm tall.

Habitat:

In mosses and some leaf litter on very sandy soil.

Notes:

Possibly saprobic but apparently involved in some sort of mutualism with moss
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/rickenella...

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3 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 4 years ago

Thanks. We were just starting then.. must have made many mistakes I think.

Anna42
Anna42 4 years ago

This is not Rickenella fibula, this is Galerina sp.

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 11 years ago

lovely!

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on May 18, 2012
Submitted on May 23, 2012

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