Turf Mottlegill - Panaeolus fimicola
Hemispherical to convex caps are smooth and satiny, dark brown to reddish-brown in colour and fading with age. It can be very variable in colour depending on weather; darker, sticky and shiny when wet.. Stipe drk brwn with a powdery look. Grey brown gills with paler edges, blackening as spores mature. Spores are smooth and black.
other Mottlegills (Panaeolus) and the Brown Mottlegill or Mower's Mushroom (Panaeolina foenisecii) may be found in similar habitats.
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Photograph from top down, in side-view and underneath to show gills; note habitat and substrate. This can be a difficult fungus to identify and we recommend that spores are examined, or that it is verified by an expert from a specimen before submission to NatureSpot.
lawns, roadside verges, mown grasslands
May to November
Widespread
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
steven lewis
Stapleford Park
17 November 2019
steven lewis
Stapleford Park
17 November 2019
steven lewis
Stapleford Park
17 November 2019
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Species profile
- Common names
- Turf Mottlegill
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 25/09/2019 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 17/11/2019 (Lewis, Steven)
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