Conocybe deliquescens

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or scattered in grassy areas; summer and fall; probably widely distributed east of the Great Plains, but more common in the Great Lakes region. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois.

Cap: 1-3 cm; collapsed-conical; slimy; bald; orangish brown to reddish brown; grooved; dissolving quickly.

Gills: Usually well formed (before turning into mush), but sometimes fusing together or only rudimentary; rusty brown; fragile; soon dissolving.

Stem: 5-8 cm long; 1-3 mm thick; soon tilting over with the weight of the cap; equal; white; bald; hollow.

Flesh: Insubstantial.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH black on cap surface.

Microscopic Features: Spores 11-16 x 7-10 m; ellipsoid to subamygdaliform, with a large pore; smooth; walls 1 m thick; orangish brown in KOH; brownish orange in Melzer's. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Brachybasidioles present. Pleurocystidia not found. Cheilocystidia not found.

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