Arrhenia chlorocyanea

31 January 2009 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

Winter. According to Th W. Kuyper in Flora Agaricina Neerlandica, the fungus fruits from June to October. However, records in the BMS database for the UK indicate that Winter is the preferred season. According to Boomsluiter in Field Mycology 7(2) in Holland the peak season is late winter and 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

I am grateful to David Edington and Nick Cantle for providing me with a location of this very rare fungus

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