Coprinellus truncorum 1
Coprinellus truncorum, is common, widespread and consmopolitan. Often in dense colonies, occurring on buried wood, around and on stumps, etc. Brown caps to 35 mm, parabolic at first, covered initially with fine, glistening mica-like whitish granules; flesh thin. Gills white then brownish finally black, autodigesting; spore print black. Stem white, smooth. Similar to Coprinellus micaceus (Northern hemisphere), separated only by microscopic aspects, and C. micaceus has powdery stem, C. truncorum stem smooth. Domestic lawn, Merimbula, 2008.
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