Common Rustgill - Gymnopilus penetrans
The cap is an orange-brown colour and can be sticky when wet, while the stem is a dull yellow colour and the gills, which are yellowish develop rust-brown spots with age. Spore print rusty orange-brown, spores ellipsoidal, 7-9 x 4-5.5µm, covered in small warts.
On fallen wood debris of conifers, occasionally on deciduous wood.
Found from late spring to late autumn
Grows singly or in numbers
Fairly common and widespread in Britain.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
[In the Index Fungorum, this species is in the Hymenogastraceae]
David Nicholls
Bouskell Park, Blaby
16 October 2004
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
08 October 2005
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
23 October 2004
Steve Mathers
Jubilee Way (Stathern and Barkestone Woods)
15 October 2016
AJ Cann
Martinshaw
30 September 2017
Rusty orange-brown spore print
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Species profile
- Common names
- Common Rustgill
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Hymenogastraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 27
- First record:
- 16/10/2004 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 28/11/2024 (Bell, Melinda)
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AJ Cann
Martinshaw
30 September 2017
Steve Mathers
Cademan Wood
12 November 2017
Steve Mathers
Jubilee Way (Stathern and Barkestone Woods)
15 October 2016
AJ Cann
Martinshaw
30 September 2017
Spores ellipsoidal, covered in small warts.
