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Gymnopus quercophilus
Very tiny mushroonm that appears on evergreen oak leaves (Quercus ilex). The cap is 2-5 mm broad, convex, broadly so to plane in age, occasionally with the disc depressed. The margin is decurved, sometimes becoming plane, often sulcate. The surface is minutely pruinose, striate wrinkled to two-thirds the distance from the margin to the disc; color light-brown at the disc, pallid to cream-buff at the margin. Gills adnexed, subdistant, moderately broad, whitish, lamellulae 1-2 seried.The stipe is 1-2.5 cm long, less than 1 mm thick, round, hair-like.
On Quercus illex leaves.
Too small to be eaten but they are used in infusions to calm headaches. Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/60 sec.; f/32; ISO Speed Rating: 800. Exposure Bias: 0 EV. Focal Length: 90.0 mm. Flash fired.
5 Comments
It is indeed a very Marasmioid Gymnopus. Anyway, Gymnopus is in the Marasmiaceae family
That's amazing. Just going visually I would say this is a classic Marasmius and looks almost nothing like Gymnopus. I wonder what the reasoning was.
I changed the name to the new accepted one, from Marasmius to Gymnopus quercophilus
I guess so, Mark! These leaves can resist a lot of time after the fall off the tree.
That's amazing. I presume the leaves must be down for some time.