🇬🇧 glistening inky cap - 🇩🇪 Gemeiner Glimmertintling - 🇪🇪 Sätendav tindik - 🇷🇺 Навозник мерцающий 10/17/10—6/21/25
🆔 Coprinellus micaceus (Bull.) Vilgalys, Hopple & Jacq.Johnson
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills, crowded, initially white, turning black then deliquescing as spores mature
ℹ️ Cap: Starts bell-shaped, expanding to flat, ochre‑brown to gray‑brown, hygrophanous, covered in shiny, mica-like veil granules when young
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Adnexed to nearly free
ℹ️ Stipe: Slender, hollow, white to pale tan, smooth to finely pruinose, with potential basal veil remnants
🟤⚫ Spore print very dark brown to black
☘️🪵 Ecology saprobic, clustering on decaying wood and stumps (buried or exposed), in spring through autumn
😵🍷 Edible when young but delicate, not recommended with alcohol (coprine)
📏 Fruit body small to medium, stipe 3–10 cm long, 2–6 mm thick
📐 Cap 2–6 cm in diameter
👃 Faint or indistinct
👅 Typically mild, indistinct
🔬 Ellipsoid to mitriform, smooth, 7–10 × 4.5–6 µm, with central germ pore, basidia 10–15 × 4–7 µm, 4-spored
🔤 Common inkcap with mica‑sparkling cap, dark gills, and delicate hollow stem, becomes inky after spore release, grows in clusters on decaying wood year-round
🇬🇧 glistening inky cap - 🇩🇪 Gemeiner Glimmertintling - 🇪🇪 Sätendav tindik - 🇷🇺 Навозник мерцающий