Alternative Name: Lepista nuda (Bull.) Cooke
When: 2007-11-20
Collection location: CabinCove, Smoky Mountains, Haywood Co., North Carolina, USA [Click for map]
Who: Jason Hollinger (pellaea)
Herbarium specimen available

Species Lists:
Mushrooms of CabinCove (40)

Notes: small mushroom, solitary, in moss on top of rotting hardwood log
ST: 10×6mm, bulbous base, flares at v top, same color and texture as cap, solid, watery but same color inside
CAP: 20mm wide, somewhat irreg convex, waxy slick texture, lilac-gray drying brownish, whitish bloom, margin minutely curled under
FLESH: watery but same color inside, 5mm thick
VEIL: none
GILL: attached, pale lilac, 1mm deep, v close, clean and straight, a few are forked
SPORE: print whitish
This has got to be the world’s smallest blewit if that is indeed what this really is.

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Clitocybe nuda (Fr.) H.E. Bigelow & A.H. Sm.		pellaea		(no votes)

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Observation created: Wed Nov 21 07:56:28 -0800 2007
Last modified: Wed Nov 21 07:56:28 -0800 2007
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