Mycena pura

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Ecology: Saprobic on forest debris under hardwoods and conifers; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; terrestrial; widely distributed; spring, summer and fall (also in winter in California).

Cap: 2-6 cm; convex or bell-shaped, becoming flattened; the margin lined; bald; moist or dry; typically lilac to purple when young, but often fading or developing other shades (including whitish, yellowish, pinkish brown or reddish).

Gills: Attached to the stem by a tooth; close or nearly distant; whitish or sometimes slightly pinkish to purplish; developing cross-veins with maturity.

Stem: 4-10 cm long; 2-6 mm thick; equal; hollow; smooth or with tiny hairs; whitish or flushed with the cap color.

Flesh: Insubstantial; watery grayish to whitish.

Odor and Taste: Odor radishlike or sometimes lacking; taste strongly radishlike.

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative or greenish yellow on cap surface.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-10 x 3-4 ; long-elliptical or nearly cylindrical; faintly to moderately amyloid, or inamyloid when mature; smooth. Basidia 4-spored. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia rare to scattered or abundant; 40-70 x 10-20 ; fusoid-ventricose, widely fusiform, or saccate.

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