Mountain Brownie - Psilocybe montana
Cap is 0.5 to 2.5 cm wide; conical, becoming broadly convex; moist, smooth; dark reddish-brown, drying yellowish-brown. Gills: attached, almost distant, moderately broad; pale brown, becoming dark reddish-brown.
It is saprobic, possibly also parasitic. It is associated with mosses.
Widespread in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
David Nicholls
Beacon Hill Country Park
22 February 2017
Steve Mathers
Beacon Hill CP
22 February 2017
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Species profile
- Common names
- Mountain Brownie
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Strophariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 22/02/2017 (Mathers, Steve)
- Last record:
- 22/02/2017 (Mathers, Steve)
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