12/Jul/2026, 7:58 AM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, after night rain, in mawned grass, with Prunella and Trifolium flowers
59°26'22.8"N 24°47'19.8"E
🌡️ 20°C 🌤️ Sunny 💨 Wind 40° NE->SW, 9 km/h
Original Instagram postParasola plicatilis
pleated inkcap
- Scientific identification
- Parasola plicatilis (Curtis) Redhead, Vilgalys & Hopple
- Family
- Psathyrellaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Parasola
Names across languages
- English: pleated inkcap
- German: Gemeiner Scheibchentintling
- Finnish: Ratasmustesieni
- Estonian: Kraetindik
- Russian: Парасола складчатая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-07-12.
Hymenium
Gills whitish at first, becoming grey and finally black, shrivelling rather than deliquescing into ink
Cap
Very thin, strongly pleated, ovoid when young, then convex to bell-shaped and finally flat; brownish when young, becoming pale grey with a tawny-brown central disc
Hymenium Attachment
Free to remote from the stipe, often appearing joined to a collar
Stipe
Very slender, fragile, hollow, white to dingy cream, slightly swollen at base, without ring
Spore print
Spore print black
Ecology
Saprobic in short grass, lawns, parks, meadows, woodland edges and sometimes leaf litter or woodchip; appears rapidly after rain, often short-lived within a day; late spring to autumn
Edibility
Inedible, very thin and insubstantial
Fruit body
Fruit body small; stipe ~6–10 cm long, 1-2 mm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~1–3.5 cm
Flesh
Flesh thin, whitish, fragile, unchanging
Chemical reactions
Spores dark reddish-brown in KOH
Microscopy
Spores angular-ovoid to limoniform, smooth, ~10–15 × 8–11 µm, eccentric germ pore; basidia 4-sterigmate; pleurocystidia utriform to broadly cylindrical; cheilocystidia utriform to broadly fusoid-ventricose; clamp connections present
Overview
Tiny pleated lawn inkcap with umbrella-like grey cap
2001). In Redhead, Vilgalys, Moncalvo, Johnson & Hopple, Taxon 50(1): 235.
Field encounters
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