Tiny Corrugated Fungi by Kaye Menner is a photograph by Kaye Menner which was uploaded on April 23rd, 2017.
Tiny Corrugated Fungi by Kaye Menner
Psathyrella corrugis (Previously Psathyrella gracilis)... more
by Kaye Menner
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Tiny Corrugated Fungi by Kaye Menner
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Kaye Menner
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Psathyrella corrugis (Previously Psathyrella gracilis)
A few week ago we had lots of rain in Sydney and fungi started to grow on fences, in gardens, etc. We have mulch in our backyard, and the other day I noticed these very tiny but sort of tall fungi with thin stems growing on the mulch. They had little corrugated caps. I had never seen it before. It just looked like a little toadstool village.
[From Wikipedia]
Psathyrella is a large genus of about 400 species, and is similar to the genera Coprinellus, Coprinopsis, Coprinus and Panaeolus, usually with a thin cap and white or yellowish white hollow stem. The caps do not self digest as do those of Coprinellus and Coprinopsis. Some also have brown spores rather than black. These fungi are often drab-colored, difficult to identify, and inedible, and so they are sometimes considered uninteresting. However they are quite common and can occur at times when there are few other mushrooms to be seen.
In order to identify the species it may be necessary to take into account the presence and nature of any veil remnants on cap (which may only be visible on very young fruiting bodies), the colour of young fruiting bodies, which is often more vivid than with older ones, whether the cap is hygrophanous (it can well be a translucent brown or ochre colour in a humid state but a pure opaque white on drying out), and the spore size and the presence and nature of cheilocystidia, pleurocystidia and caulocystidia, distinctive sterile cells on the gill face, gill edge and stipe respectively.
Family: Psathyrellaceae
Genus: Psathyrella
[Courtesy - https://abneyfungi.wordpress.com/fungi-o-z/ ]
Psathyrella corrugis. (Previously P. gracilis). One of the Psathyrellas with a red line edging the gills and a white extreme edge. The red in this case is not continuous. The cap is small and grows on buried wood (wood chips). It is brown and striated when wet and dries paler.
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April 23rd, 2017
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Comments (9)
Kaye Menner
Thanks Larry for your comment and feature in your Go take a Hike Photography Group :) I sent you a few fav's in appreciation.
Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Jurgen – your forest fungi have been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2022 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
Kaye Menner
Thanks so much Beth for featuring my image in "All Natural Beauty of This World" :) In appreciation, I enjoyed viewing more of your new work and left a few votes as a thank you.