Dwarf Bell - Galerina pumila
A small, delicate looking fungus with orange-brown, striate caps, found in mossy unimproved grasslands, lawns, etc. It is not possible to identify Galerina grassland species with any certainty without detailed microscopic examination.
Many other 'LBMs' ('little brown mushrooms', e.g. Mycena or other Galerina species) are found in mossy grasslands
microscope 
Detailed microscopic examination is needed to identify this species - if you have not done this, or it has not been verfied by an expert from a specimen, please submit your record as genus only (Galerina).
Mossy lawns and pastures.
Autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Gilroes Cemetery
10 October 2012
det. R Iliffe, LFSG
David Nicholls
Altar Stones
09 November 2019
det. T Hering, LFSG
David Nicholls
Altar Stones
09 November 2019
det. T Hering, LFSG
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Species profile
- Common names
- Dwarf Bell
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Hymenogastraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 10/10/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 09/11/2019 (Nicholls, David)
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