Mycena abramsii
Mycologia 8: 220. 1916.
Common Name: none
Synonym: Prunulus abramsii Murrill
Solitary to gregarious or subcespitose on decayed wood of conifers and hardwoods; fruiting in the fall in the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges, and in the spring in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges.
Unknown.
Mycena abramsii can be distinguished by its dark brown cap when young, becoming grey with a brown disk in age, odor of bleach, growth on decayed wood, and fusoid-ventricose cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia. Similar species in California include Mycena alcaliniformis, which differs in cheilocystidia shape and an absence of pleurocystidia, and Mycena leptocephala, which differs in forming inflated caulocystidia and growth typically as a terrestrial species among pine needles.
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