Ochre Aldercap - Naucoria escharioides
Cap convex, then flattened, sometimes with a central bump, fibrous, buff-colouredwith a yellow brown with a darker centre, to about 3 cm across. Gills adnexed, thin, close, buff, darkening with age. Spores warty.
other Naucoria - and many other 'little brown mushrooms' exist.
This is difficult to verify from photos, and we recommend that it is verified by an expert from a specimen before submission to NatureSpot. Also photograph from top -down, in side view and from underneath showing gills. Note habitat and substrate.
On damp ground with Alder.
Autumn
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire & Rutland not known.
Naucoria escharioides is in Hymenogastraceae in the Index Fungorum, but on the NBN it is in Strophariaceae
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
specimen examined R Iliffe
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
specimen examined R Iliffe
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