Clustered Bonnet

Mycena inclinata

Stumps and windfalls of oak, rarely other deciduous trees. Summer, most often autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 1-3 cm across, conically bell-shaped, flattened when old, with a sharp umbo, translucently wrinkled-furrowed, reddish-brown, greyish-brown, yellowish-brown. Gills distant, thick, white, adnate. Stem 3–10 (12)x0.2-0.4 cm, whitish, yellowish, bright yellowish-brown, orange-brown towards the base. Flesh brownish, with a rather pungent smell of flour, wood or even cucumber, not bitter. Characteristic features: stem orange-, yellowish-brown, most often found on oak stumps. Grows in large groups, bunches and tufts (sometimes up to a hundred or more). Very common. A wood saprotroph, very active. Inedible.