Whitelaced shank

Description:

The cap is 6 to 14 cm across, convex, not flattening completely but often developing a slight central depression with a small umbo. Smooth and dry, various shades of grey-brown with radial streaks. In dry weather the caps of this mushroom sometimes split radially at the margins. The gills are sinuate or adnexed to stem, white, turning cream with age. They are crowded and very broad, platyphylla means literally broad leaves. On older species the gills become irregularly wavy. The stem is 5 to 15 cm long and 0.6 to 1 cm in diameter. The base often rooting and with long white rhizomorphs attached. It is white, covered in grey-brown fibrils, paler at the apex and no ring.

Habitat:

This woodland mushroom occurs throughout most Europe and is also recorded in parts of Russia. Megacollybia platyphylla is a saprobic mushroom. It can occur either solitarily or in small groups on and near deciduous hardwood trunks, branches or woody debris, or arising from the forest floor from buried wood.

Notes:

Spotted in rural area of Deventer, Holland. (sources:see reference)