Inocybe sp. (Inocybe)

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The fruit body is mushroom with both stem and cap. The mushrooms are generally small, with caps ranging from a one to several centimetres in diameter. The stems are up to a few centimetres long and a few millimetres wide. The caps are conical, shallowly convex or flat and with a central hump (or umbo), more pronounced in some species than others. The cap may be smooth or hairy and often you see a few radial splits in fresh caps (not as an artefact of drying in a shrivelling cap).

Their most common colour is brown, the shades ranging from pale brown to dark brown, the colour is often close to uniform throughout a given fruit body. By and large, the mushrooms in this genus are fairly drab, though there are species with whitish and violet colours.

A cobwebby partial veil (or cortina) may cover the gills in young mushrooms, but traces of a cortina may be hard to find once the cap has opened out.

Spore print: medium brown.

The mushrooms grow on soil in forests, woodlands and in suburban parks and gardens.

The book listed below is a technical monograph intended for those who need a detailed guide to the Inocybes (and close relatives) of Australia. However, it has numerous, excellent colour photographs that show you species found here.

Reference

Matheny, P.B. & Bougher, N.L. (2017). Fungi of Australia: Inocybaceae, ABRS, Canberra & CSIRO, Melbourne.

Inocybe sp. is listed in the following regions:

Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Southern Highlands | South Coast | New South Wales North Coast | Hume