found a curious little gilled cap!
cap:
3 cm diameter
convex to umbonate shape
coloring: radial gradient with dark brown in middle to beige/ tan on the edges
damage to cap apparent, unknown cause
gills:
free
coloring: alloy orange
spores:
alloy orange
stipe:
8 cm long
slightly bulbous at base
white
no ring present
other:
no brittle tissue
no lactating or bleeding milk when injured
no apparent bruising
growing solitary, not any others in sight
growing in leaf litter, not attached to decomposing wood or live tree
possibly
collybia cirrhat
Melanoleuca
phaeocollybia
conocybe
psathyrella
http://www.tanelorn.us/data/mycology/myc_id1.htm
http://www.tanelorn.us/data/mycology/myc_id1.htm
3/20/2012
Took a visit to the local library and flipped through the pages of National Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
Possibilities:
a) Blue Foot Psilocybe (719)
b) Black-Nipple Fiber Head (629)
a) Psilocybe caerulipes
Description very similar except a few details. No bruising was apparent on my specimen but with the Blue-Foot Psilocybe, Greenish blueing bruising occurs when handling. Also The range stated is from Maine to North Carolina. That is a pretty far stretch from Florida, which is my location.
b) Inocybe fuscodisca
Description is iffy, gills of my specimen are not attached and I don't remember it being fibrous. However at the end of the description, the comments state that "This is one of the few easily recognized inocybes among more than 500 species in North America." Which leads me to believe that my specimen might be a variety of the inocybe and not featured in the book. It might be on some online source.
Further exploration necessary..
sample broke when trying to remove from surroundings
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