26/Aug/2026, 6:06 PM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, mawned grassland, in disturbed soil
59°26'33.9"N 24°47'46.8"E
🌡️ 20°C ☀️ Sunny 💨 Wind 330° NNW->SSE, 9 km/h
Original Instagram postConocybe tenera
brown dunce cap
- Scientific identification
- Conocybe tenera (Schaeff.) Kühner
- Family
- Bolbitiaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Conocybe
Names across languages
- English: brown dunce cap
- German: Roststieliges Samthäubchen
- Finnish: Ruostekuupikka
- Estonian: Pruun sametkübarik
- Russian: Коноцибе нежная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-08-26.
Hymenium
Gills crowded; pale ochre when young, becoming cinnamon to rust-brown with maturity; edges distinctly paler
Cap
Conical when young, later bell-shaped; smooth, dry, hygrophanous; ochre-brown, cinnamon to rust-brown, fading yellowish-beige when dry; margin faintly striate
Hymenium Attachment
Adnexed to narrowly adnate
Stipe
Slender, straight, whitish to pale ochre-brown with rusty tones; finely pruinose or granular, hollow and very fragile; base sometimes slightly swollen; ring absent
Spore print
Spore print rust-brown to cinnamon-brown
Description
Saprobic in lawns, meadows, pastures, parks, gardens; disturbed nutrient-rich soil; occasionally on leaf litter or woodchips; solitary or scattered; spring to autumn
Edibility
Not recommended; insubstantial, difficult to identify
Fruit body
Fruit body small; stipe ~3–9 cm long and ~0.1–0.4 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~1–3 cm
Flesh
Cream to pale ochre, very thin and fragile, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Odour
Faintly mushroomy
Taste
Indistinct
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth, thick-walled, ~9–14 × 5–8 µm, with a conspicuous germ pore; basidia 4-spored; cheilocystidia and caulocystidia lecythiform; pleurocystidia absent; pileipellis hymeniform
Overview
Delicate cinnamon-brown grassland conecap with a fragile ringless stipe
1935). Encyclop. Mycol. 7: 68.
Field encounters
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