Arrhenia chlorocyanea

20 March 2010 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin

Species

Cap

Plano-convex, with a small peak at the centre, becoming depressed with age, scurfy, margin lined, scalloped, dark blue grey, to about 2 cm across

Gills

Decurrent, distant, pale blue grey

Stem

Equal, slender, smooth, concolorous with the cap

Smell

Unknown

Taste

Unknown

Season

Late winter to early spring.

Distribution

Very rare

Habitat

On sandy soil with mosses and lichens

Spore Print

White

Microscopic Features

Spores ellipsoidal to cylindrical, smooth (7-9.5) x (3.5-5.5) µm²

Edibility

Unknown

Notes

See also Boomsluiter in Field Mycology 7(2). I am grateful to David Edington and Nick Cantle for providing me with the location of this very rare fungus. The site was originally found by Nick Cantle.

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