Common Stump Brittlestem - Psathyrella piluliformis

The cap is reddish brown, drying paler, and has fragmented patches of the white veil at the edges; convex and them flattening as it ages.  The gills start pale brownish, but become purplish brown. Stem whitish, fragile.  Often in dense clumps on deciduous stumps.

Other Psathyella, especially P laevissima which has striate margins and only a few veil remnants.

Photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe.  Note habitat and substrate, and provide a field photo in habitat.

Logs and stumps of deciduous species, rarely conifers

August to November

Widespread and frequent (Kibby, Vol.3, 2021)

Common in Leicestershire and Rutland.