A tiny parachute mushroom with a pale pinkish-buff, radially grooved cap on a hair-thin, shiny black stem. It grows in troops on fallen needles and other litter, linked by black horsehair-like rhizomorphs that run through the duff. It was long placed in Marasmius.
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Habitat
Saprobic on conifer needle litter, especially pine and coast redwood in California, and less often on hardwood litter and woody debris; in groups of a few to fifty. Summer to autumn, or after fall rains into winter in California.
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Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe, many parts of Asia, and North America, including California and the spruce-fir forests of the northeastern United States.
Characteristics
Cap: 0.4-1 cm, convex becoming flat with a depressed center; dry, radially grooved and wrinkled; pinkish buff in the center, paler at the margin. Gills: adnate (attached to the stem, not to a collar), distant, pinkish buff becoming ochre. Stem: 2.5-5 cm long, 0.5-1 mm thick, wiry and tough, reddish brown at the top and dark brown to black below. Rhizomorphs: abundant, black and horsehair-like. Spore print: white. Spores: 6.5-9 x 3.5-5 um, ellipsoid to teardrop-shaped, smooth, inamyloid (First Nature).
