BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Mycena aetites (Fr.) Quél., 1872 (Drab Bonnet)
| Notes (MWS) | A small toadstool with a grey pellucid-striate cap and smelling like cigarette ash or dirty ashtrays - quite distinct from the 'alkaline' smell (like crushed poppy petals or pea pods) of Mycena leptocephala with which it is often confused. M. aetites is one of the commonest grassland Mycenas. |
| British records | 718 |
Suggested Literature
Mycena aetites may be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Mycena aetites is associated with:
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fruitbody | Poaceae - grasses - formerly Graminae | fruitbody is associated with | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 |
Associated with Mycena aetites:
Mycena aetites may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) |
AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools) |
Mycena (a genus of bonnet toadstools) |
References
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
