Arrhenia gerardiana

Gerard navel

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2025-06-07.

Gills, smooth, typically pale gray-brown, decurrent to slightly decurrent, moderately spaced

Convex to shallowly umbilicate or funnel-shaped, smooth to finely tomentose, gray to brownish-gray, often scaly at the center when fresh

Decurrent.

Thin, cylindrical, smooth or slightly pruinose, pale gray to brownish, sometimes with whitish basal mycelium

Sphagnicolous—grows in association with Sphagnum mosses, found in bogs, wet heaths, and moss-rich coniferous substrates

Spore print white

Inedible—too small and insubstantial

Fruit body small; stipe generally 3–6 cm long, thin

Cap 1–5 cm in diameter

Faint or indistinct

Indistinct

Spores subglobose to ellipsoid, smooth, inamyloid, 6.8–12.4 × 3.4–5.1 µm, basidia 4-spored, ~24 × 7 µm

Small, omphalinoid gray to brownish peatland mushroom

2008). In Knudsen & Vesterholt, Funga Nordica, Agaricoid, Boletoid and Cyphelloid Genera (Gylling): 913.

Viru raba, Kolga, Harjumaa, Eesti

Peat bogland with pines, wet area, deep in sphagnum moss

59°27'57.3"N 25°38'45.1"E

🌡️ 18°C ⛅ Sunbreaks through clouds after some rains