Gregarious among grass and mosses in medows, open grassland, lawns etc. Autumn. Occasional but not very common in Norway. See the records in The Norwegian Mycological Database.
Pileus up to 20
mm across, conical or parabolical, translucent-striate,
sulcate, pruinose, glabrescent, somewhat lubricous, hygrophanous, greyish to
grey-brown or dark brown, often with a yellowish or olivaceous tint, or with a pinkish or reddish
shade at the centre. Lamellae
13 - 17 reaching the stipe, ascending, narrowly adnate,
dorsally intervenose with age, whitish to grey to olivaceous grey, the edge
yellowish brown, pink-violet or reddish brown, sometimes not coloured or somewhat coloured only very close to the margin of the pileus. Stipe
up to 80 x 2 mm, hollow, equal, terete, straight, pruinose
at the apex, glabrous farther down, whitish, pale grey or
olive yellow at the apex, gradually becoming darker below
towards the grey-brown, sometimes dark brown base, the base densely covered with
long, white fibrils. Odour nitrous
or indistinctive.
Basidia 24-35 x
7-9 μm, clavate, 4-spored (some seen with 2 sterigmata). Spores 9.2-11.0 x 5.0-6.1,
pip-shaped, amyloid. Cheilocystidia
30-80 x 8-20 μm, forming a sterile band, with reddish
brown contents, fusiform, clavate to somewhat irregularly shaped,
long- to short stalked, smooth or covered with few, rather
coarse, simple to furcate excrescences up to 27 x 2-3.5 μm. Pleurocystidia
not observed. Lamellar trama dextrinoid. Hyphae of the pileipellis
2-4.5 μm wide, covered with simple to very much branched excrescences 2.5-30 x 1-2 μm, forming dense masses. Hyphae of the cortical layer of the stipe 2-3.5 μm wide, sparsely covered with cylindrcal, straight to curved excrescences 2-5.5 x 1.5-2.5 μm. Terminal cells not differentiated. Clamp connections present.
M. olivaceomarginata is a very
variable species, which may appear in a number of colour
forms. Some of them have been considered to represent separate species or varieties. Maas Geesteranus (1986 c) referred to four different forms, but in my opinion there are so many intermediate and overlapping collections that they should not be formally separated. It has also been suggested (Arnolds 1982) that it is conspecific with M. citrinomarginata, a view that I find very unlikely.
In spite of the great variety of colurs in M. olivaceomarginata, identification rarely causes any trouble in the field. The terrestrial growth should distinguish it from resembling species. M. citrinomarginata, also a variable species with colours from very pale to fairly dark, can be told apart from M. olivaceomarginata as follows:
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M. citrinomarginata can be found in forests but it seems to be absent from the dry grasslands, where M. olivaceomarginata is most common.
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M. citrinomarginata generally is paler and more yellow, and the lamellar edge is citrine yellow to whitish, while it has one or another variety of a brown colour in M. olivaceomarginata.
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The terminal cells of the stipitipellis in M. citrinomarginata are numerous and covered with coarse excrescences while they are very rare, appearing absent in M. olivaceomarginata.
Although it has several features in common with species of sect. Fragilipedes (Fr.) Quél. Maas Geesteranus (1986 c) placed M. olivaceomarginata in sect. Rubromarginatae Singer ex Maas Geest. because of the more or less coloured lamellar edge.
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