Galerina calyptrata

tiny bog galerina

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-10-19.

Gills, moderately spaced, initially pale yellow to light brown, becoming dark brown with age

Convex to bell-shaped when young, often flattening with age, smooth, sticky when moist, yellowish-brown to tawny, often with a slightly darker center

Adnate to slightly decurrent

Slender, cylindrical, yellowish to light brown, often darker towards the base

Spore print ocher-brown color

Saprobic, typically found on decaying wood or in mossy forest floors, in mixed or coniferous forests, from late summer to autumn

Inedible, toxic, contains amatoxins similar to Amanita species

Fruit body small, stipe 3–6 cm long, 2–5 mm thick

Cap 1–3 cm in diameter

Odour mealy, faintly mushroomy, indistinct

Taste mealy and indistinct

Spores almond shaped, with small calyptrates, mottled 9-12 x 5-7 µm

Small, brown mushroom with a sticky cap, commonly found in mossy environments

1960). Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 43(2): 237.

Soodla jõgi, Harjumaa, Estonia

Spruce-pine-birch forest, deep in Pleurozium sp. moss

59°23'13.8"N 25°23'31.3"E

🔆 Mild overcast, open spot