Mycena interrupta (Berk.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 299 (1887)

Image © Taylor Lockwood Reproduced by permission Common Name: Pixies' Parasol

Literally: an interrupted fungus, referring to an early description of interrupted gills. (Mycena [Gr.] - mushroom; interruptus [L.] - torn in between.) This tiny, blue fungus grows in troops of elfin parasols on decaying logs.

• Pileus
  Pileus/cap: about 1cm diameter. Beautiful blue caps: dark, steely blue in young specimens, becoming paler with a blue centre, fading to pale grey-blue when old. Globular buttons when young becoming flatly convex. Viscid when wet., Striate. Translucent.
• Lamellae
  White, often edged with blue.
• Stipe/stem
  Up to 2cm high. Slender, hollow, arising from a tufted basal disc. Translucent blue-white.
• Smell
  None
• Spores
  Spore print white.
• Habitat
  Undersides of wet, fallen logs, in decaying pine stumps, occasionally on old, wet pine cones.
• Reference
  Fuhrer, B. Field Companion to Australian Fungi, p 59

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