10/Oct/2025, 4:23 PM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, deep in grass, on buried in soil wooden remains
59°26'20.5"N 24°47'39.9"E
🌡️ 12°C 🌤️ Scattered clouds 💨 Wind 320° NW->SE, 19 km/h
Original Instagram postBritzelmayria multipedata
clustered brittlestem
- Scientific identification
- Britzelmayria multipedata (Peck) D.Wächt. & A.Melzer
- Family
- Psathyrellaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Britzelmayria
Names across languages
- English: clustered brittlestem
- German: Büscheliger Faserling
- Finnish: Pitkäjalkahaprakas
- Estonian: Kännaspsatürell
- Russian: Бритцелмайрия многоножковая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-10-10.
Hymenium
Gills, initially pale grey-brown with white edges, later darkening to deep brown
Cap
Conical to convex, later bell-shaped but not completely flat, smooth, silky when moist, hygrophanous, colors from reddish-clay-brown when wet to pale ochre when dry, darker center
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to adnexed (not strongly decurrent)
Stipe
Slender and hollow; white to pale, often fused at the base in clusters; stems may be wavy, tapering slightly upward
Spore print
Spore print dark purplish-brown
Ecology
Saprobic, growing in dense tufts on soil, leaf litter, buried or decayed hardwoodin grassy, woodland or edge habitats, from summer to autumn
Edibility
Little culinary value (insubstantial, fragile)
Fruit body
Fruit body small, stems 7–12 cm long, many stems clustered together
Dimensions
Cap 0.5–3 cm diameter
Flesh
Flesh thin, white, no staining
Chemical reactions
No distinct reagent reactions
Odour
Faint, mushroomy
Taste
Mild, indistinct
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth, with a germ pore, ~6.5–10×3.5–4 µm, basidia 4-sterigmate, with clamp connections
Overview
Clustered brittlestem mushroom that forms dense tufts from a common base, often likened to many feet
2020). Mycol. Progr. 19(11): 1213.
Field encounters
Source hashtags
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