Gymnopus inodorus

A lignicolous Gymnopus growing on dead wood of broadleaf trees.

Pileipellis composed of filamentous, cylindrical hyphae, arranged in parallel or slightly interwoven, up to 8 µm wide, with abundant brown intracellular pigment, septate and with clamp connections at the septa.

Caulocystidia cylindrical, sinuous, with swellings and rounded apices.

Cheilocystidia (the few observed) fusiform, although literature notes it can also present scattered multiform cheilocystidia, sinuous, with swellings and even bifurcations.

Basidia clavate, up to 40 µm long, with basal clamps, mostly 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal to amygdaliform, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a slightly eccentric apiculus at one end, one or more oil or lipid droplets inside, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2147/24.