[GS] Pileus 1.5-4 cm. diam., vinaceous brown, striate at edge, broadly conical umbonate, some with a shallow umbilicus on the umbo, smooth, moist; flesh thin, white, fragile. Gills adnexed, vinaceous grey with white margins, moderately crowded. Stipe 3-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., pale fawn above to vinaceous brown at base, silky, smooth, hollow, fragile. Spores 10 x 6-8um, amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid, both with some hyphae 10um diam., and with cells of large diameter. Cheilocystidia hair-shaped or pin-head, set in a more or less gelatinized gill-margin (Fig. 2/50, p. 37). HABITAT : in soil close to wooden edging of path near Pinus plantation, Brooklyn, Wellington, 27.5.1958, Miriam Aicken in Stevenson (type). [JAC] exact locality was Brooklyn, Laura Ave, board on path edge near Pinus (not soil), although stem bases are enlarged and encrusted with gravel, and strigose. That will be here 2657471, 5988267 in Wellington. Cutis of broad hyphae, little differentiated from the hypoderm of pseudoamyloid cells. Hyphae smooth, without ornamentation, clamped. Stipe diverticulae at (at very apex only) of small fingers. Lamellae adnate, without decurrent notch. Lamellar egde not gelatinised, not with noriceably different colouration in dried material. Trama contains oleiferous, potentially lactiferous hyphae. Without pleurocystidia. No cheilocystidia hair-like but some weakly lecythiform. 4-spored but range of spore size suggests at least some 2. length=9.2–12.0µm (µ=10.3, σ=0.63), width=6.1–7.7µm (µ=6.9, σ=0.38), Q=1.4–1.6µm (µ=1.49, σ=0.07), n=20. A good member of fragilipedes rather than calodontes. Keys to Mycena stiptata (and thus close to leptocephala but this without characteristic caulocystidia). Requires additional material to be confimed as M. stipata.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

Pileus 1.5-4 cm diam., vinaceous brown, striate at edge, broadly conical umbonate, some with a shallow umbilicus on the umbo, smooth, moist; flesh thin, white, fragile. Gills adnexed, vinaceous grey with white margins, moderately crowded. Stipe 3-5 cm. x 2-3 mm, pale fawn above to vinaceous brown at base, silky, smooth, hollow, fragile. Spores 10 x 6-8 µm, amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid, both with some hyphae 10 µm diam., and with cells of large diameter. Cheilocystidia hair-shaped or pinhead, set in a more or less gelatinized gill-margin (Fig. 50).

In soil close to wooden edging of path near Pinus plantation, Brooklyn, Wellington, 27.5-1958, Miriam Aicken in Stevenson (type).

Pileus 1.5-4 cm diam., vinaceo-brunneus, margine striato, late conico-umbonatus, umbone nonnunquam baud alte umbilicato, laevis, humidus; caro tenuis, alba, fragilis. Lamellae adnexae, vinaceo-griseae marginibus albis, modice confertae. Stipes 3-5 cm x 2-3 mm, superne pallide hinnuleus, basi vinaceo-brunneus, sericeus, laevis, cavus, fragilis. Sporae 10 x 6-8 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura valde pseudo-amyloidea, utraque cum hyphis nonnullis 10 µm diam., et cellulis diametro magno praedita. Cheilocystidia piliformia vel capitellata, marginem lamellae plus minus gelatinatum inserta.

Typus: M. Aicken in Stevenson 1328.