06/Sep/25, 1:49 PM
Kõrveküla, Lääne-Viru, Eesti
Mixed forest, on decaying conifer wood submerged in moss
59°14'01.5"N 25°39'28.4"E
🌡️ 22°C 🌥️ Partly sunny
Original Instagram postConnopus acervatus
tufted connopus
- Scientific identification
- Connopus acervatus (Fr.) K.W.Hughes, Mather & R.H.Petersen
- Family
- Omphalotaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Connopus
Names across languages
- English: tufted connopus
- German: Büscheliger Blasssporrübling
- Finnish: Kimppujuurekas
- Estonian: Kimp-metskõrges
- Russian: Коннопус скученный
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-09-06.
Hymenium
Gills, close, cream-buff, young ones whitish
Cap
Convex when young with incurved margin, at maturity broadly convex to nearly flat, surface smooth, glabrous, moist/subviscid when fresh, color dingy reddish-brown, fading when dry to buff-brown
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate or narrowly attached to appearing nearly free
Stipe
Slender, hollow, cartilaginous, equal, cylindrical, surface smooth or faintly fibrillose in lower part, apex paler vinaceous-brown, base fused or clustered with other stipes, base with mycelium
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic, in dense clusters on decaying coniferous wood, summer-autumn
Edibility
Inedible
Fruit body
Fruit body small to medium, stipe length about 4–10 cm; thickness ~2–3 mm
Dimensions
Cap ~0.5–3 cm diameter
Flesh
Cap flesh unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
No known color changes to reagents
Odour
Indistinct
Taste
Slightly bitter
Microscopy
Spores 5.0–7.0 × 2.0–2.5 µm, smooth, narrowly tear-shaped or ellipsoid to nearly cylindrical, inamyloid, pleurocystidia absent, cheilocystidia up to ~40 µm long
Overview
Reddish-brown clustered agaric growing on decomposing conifer wood
2010). Mycologia 102(6): [1464].
Field encounters
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