Moss Navel - Arrhenia rickenii
A small fungus associated with mosses. The caps are convex, becoming deeply funnelled and with a wavy edge when mature. The caps are dark grey or greyish-brown, drying to a paler brown, and the stem is pale. The gills are deeply decurrent and widely spaced.
Other Arrhenia of similar shape.
microscope 
Identification can be difficult and we recommend that your record is verfied by an expert from a specimen before you send in to NatureSpot, also noting habitat, substrate and size.
Saprophytic on mosses on alkaline soil.
September to November in Britain and Ireland.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
26 October 2022
conf. G Hall (LFSG)
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
26 October 2022
scale in cm.
conf. G Hall (LFSG)
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
26 October 2022
scale in cm.
conf. G Hall (LFSG)
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Hygrophoraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 26/10/2022 (Cooper, Barbara)
- Last record:
- 02/11/2025 (Ainsworth, Helen)
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Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
26 October 2022
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