and start out much paler. for a full range of cap colors, see the MO page here: http://mushroomobserver.org/observer/index_observation?q=XAM

this snow-melt mycena is not only distinctive because of its great size, but because of its extremely fuzzy “foot”, as Mike depicted in his thumbnail. They also commonly have a prominant umbo, although that feature is not depicted in this collection.

BTW Mike, you need to change your Mycena “overholtzii” (sic) spelling on Mykoweb. Dr. Overholts spelled his name with an s not a z. ;)

This Mycena doesn’t look much like a Mycena…it’s large and collybioid in stature. But according to the molecular results of Desjardin and Perry, it does belong in Mycena s.s. It is a common member of the snow bank flora of the Western United States.

More info: http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Mycena_overholtsii.html

They are interesting specimens, the base of the stipe is reminiscent of many Clitocybe species.

That’s right, but I didn’t see the remove images link until after I had deleted and re-created the observation.

I knew there was a mix up there somewhere, you could have just replaced the images in the observation you deleted.

I think you used the wrong images for this observation, same images in this observation.
http://mushroomobserver.org/45542?q=Wsi