Mycoleptodonoides pusilla

Mycorrhaphium pusillum has a small fruit body with a rounded to fan-shaped cap measuring 12–19 mm (0.5–0.7 in) in diameter. Sometimes neighbouring caps fuse together during growth to make a larger conglomerate. The cap colour is pale cream to pale yellowish, sometimes with regions that are pale brown. The pale cream stipe is 15–21 mm (0.6–0.8 in) long and 1–3 mm (0.04–0.12 in) thick. Spines on the underside of the cap are slender, numbering about 7 or 8 per millimetre, and are about a mm long. The mushroom has no distinct odour. The spores of M. pusillum are thin walled and more or less cylindrical, typically measuring 2.9–3.6 by 1.9–2.2 μm. They usually contain an oil droplet. The hyphal system of the context is monomitic (containing only loosely arranged generative hyphae), although in the spines it is dimitic. The skeletal hyphae in the spines are thick walled, sometimes so much that they are almost solid, or with a small lumen. They are densely arranged in a parallel fashion, and usually measure 3.7–4.9 μm in diameter.

A rare fungus, Mycorrhaphium pusillum is found only in Europe. It has been collected only a few times in southern and central Europe, and the first northern European collections were reported in 2015. In these latter collections, it was found fruiting on mossy ground in forest dominated by birch trees.

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