Marram Brittle-cap
Description
Cap convex to flattened convex, Ø 4-6 cm, fibrous-woolly, white, cracking into dark brown, hairy scales on a red-brown background, with margins overhung with woolly-floccose velar remnants.
Gills light to dark brown, with ciliate, white edge.
Stem 6-8 cm x 10-15 mm, silky, whitish, white falling woolly-fibrous scales below the fibrous-woolly ring. Flesh whitish. Smell none.
Occurrence
On stumps and buried wood of coniferous trees in woods on poor, acid sandy soil. Tufted.
Saprophyte.
Status
Rare (Red Data List, ed. 1)