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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Mycena galericulata. Mycena galericulata

Synonyms

Agaricus galericulatus

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous

Article: Massee, G.E. (1899) [1898]. The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349 Wellington:.
Description: Pileus conical, then campanulate, at length expanded, thin and somewhat flexible, umbonate, dry, glabrous, rather coarsely striate up to the umbo, greyish, often with a more or less decided brown tinge, 2-5 cm. across; gills adnate, with a decurrent tooth, about 1 mm. broad, connected by veins, white, becoming tinged with pink when old or dry; spores 6-7 x 4 µ; stem variable in length, 5-10 cm., 2-5 mm. thick, equal, rigid, even, polished, pallid ; base tapering and often rooting, densely strigose, hollow.
Habitat: On trunks and stumps.
Distribution: New Zealand. Australia, Tasmania, Europe, United States.
Notes: Solitary,, or more frequently tufted; sometimes growing on the ground, probably springing from buried wood.
Most closely allied to Mycena rugosa, a species not yet found in New Zealand. The latter, however, differs in having the pileus radially wrinkled or rugulose nearly up to the disc, but not distinctly striate ; the stem is also shorter and compressed ; finally, the gills are greyish-white without a trace of pink when old.

Article: Horak, E. (1971). A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Notes: The size of carpophores, and spores of this collection (COLENSO b 228) clearly differ from those of true M. galericulata known from the northern hemisphere.