Stump Navel

Omphalina epichysium

Rotten deciduous or coniferous wood. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 1.5–3 cm across, depressed, fibrous, scaly, rough, the surface of old ones smooth, greyish, dark greyish-brown, the margin furrowed. Gills pale greyish-brown, adnate, semi-decurrent. Stem 3-4x0.2-0.5 cm, thickening towards the base, the colour of the cap, white-downy at the base. Flesh thin, greyish, not bitter, odourless. Characteristic features: appears singly or several fruiting bodies together on rotten stumps and snags of coniferous and deciduous trees. Very rare. Inedible.