Pinelitter Gingertail
From the latest record: 2026-10-04.
Gills moderately spaced, interveined; pale yellow to yellow-ochre, becoming slightly orange-ochre with age
Convex when young, later broadly convex to nearly flat with a shallow central depression or umbilicus; smooth, hygrophanous, slightly viscid when moist; yellow-ochre, orange-brown, usually darker centrally
Adnate to shortly decurrent
Very slender, tough and wiry; yellow-ochre near apex, dark reddish-brown to chestnut below; finely tomentose, with ochre to tawny basal mycelium; ring absent
Spore print white
Saprobic on conifer needle litter, twigs and woody debris; coniferous and mixed forests; scattered to densely gregarious; summer to autumn
Inedible; bitter and insubstantial
Fruit body small; stipe ~2.5–8 cm long and ~0.1–0.25 cm thick
Cap ∅ ~0.5–2.5 cm
Yellowish to orange-brown, very thin and pliant, unchanging when cut
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Distinctive and pleasant scent reminiscent of Moneses uniflora
Mild, distinctly bitter
Spores ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, amyloid, ~5.5–8 × 3–4 µm; basidia 4-spored; cheilocystidia abundant, fusoid to clavate; caulocystidia present; clamp connections present
Tiny orange-brown conifer-litter omphalinoid with a wiry dark stipe
1934). Bull. Trimest. Soc. Mycol. Fr. 50: 18.
Kalmuse tee, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
City zone nearby pine dominant forest, under Pinus sylvestris trees, on soil within conifer litter
59°28'07.9"N 24°50'32.3"E
🌡️ 12°C 🌦️ Drizzle, mostly cloudy 💨 Wind 230° SW->NE, 20 km/h
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