Gregarious on the ground in various habitats; mainly under coniferous trees but also in mixed woods. Autumn to late autumn. Widely distributed in southern Norway. See
the
records in The
Norwegian Mycological database.
Pileus up to 50 mm across,
parabolical, conical to broadly conical, becoming plane
with age, with or without umbo, glabrous, sulcate, translucent-striate,
with age becoming stained with brown spots, at first dark brown with white margin, becoming whitish to beige or uniformly grey
or grey-brown, often with brown centre and somewhat paler margin.
Lamellae 23 - 27 reaching the stipe, ascending,
narrowly adnate, decurrent with a short tooth, dorsally
intervenose with age, white or very pale grey, sometimes
getting a faint pink flush with age, becoming stained with
brown spots with age, the edge white to concolorous. Stipe
up to 70 x 5 mm, hollow, terete or somewhat compressed and
occasionally fissured, straight to curved, very fragile,
white-floccose or covered with a silvery hue, at first dark greyish brown, then dark brown in the whole length or whitish to silvery grey at the
apex, darker below, gradually turning dark grey to dark
vinaceous brown, the base densely covered with white fibrils.
Odour indistinctive or somewhat rancid.
Basidia 4-spored, clamped.
Spores 8.8 - 12.2 x 5.5 - 6 µm, elongated
pip-shaped to almost cylindrical, amyloid. Cheilocystidia
44 - 70 x 14 - 20 x 0 - 5 µm, fusiform, clavate, subcylindrical,
apically mostly narrowed into a simple neck or covered with
a few very coarse, simple to somewhat branched excrescences,
more rarely obtusely rounded, clamped. Pleurocystidia similar,
if present. Hyphae of the pileipellis smooth.
Hyphae of the cortical layer of the stipe
covered with coarse, simple to somewhat branched excrescences,
terminal cells coarsely diverticulate.
Clamp connections present.
Mycena zephirus is a rather easily
identified member of sect. Fragilipedes
(Fr.) Quél. The pale pileus with brown spots is a
good character, and so is the silvery white-floccose stipe.
Young specimens often appear without brown spots but are
usually still easy to identify. They can be determined on
account of the large size, dark brown pileus, large number of
lamellae, white-floccose, very fragile stipe, smooth hyphae of the pileipellis, smooth
cheilocystidia with one or few coarse excrescences, and
fairly large, elongated spores.
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