Collybia cirrhata
Mém. Soc. Émul. Montbéliard, Sér. 2: 96. 1872.
Common Name: none
Synonym: Microcollybia cirrhata (Pers.) Lennox
For description see Halling, Lennox & 'California Mushrooms'.
Gregarious on blackened remains of mushrooms (often Russula or Lactarius species) in mixed hardwood-conifer forests; fruiting from fall through winter mainly in montane and coastal regions; locally common.
Unknown.
Collybia cirrhata can be distinguished by its small, dingy white mycenoid fruitbodies that are usually found growing from the blackened remains of Russula or Lactarius species and the lack of a sclerotium at the base of the stipe. Collybia cookei and Collybia tuberosa both fruit from a sclerotium.
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