Grass associated. Both pileus and stipe are a little viscid. 3-4 cm stipe, cap is 0.5-1.25 cm.
24Dec23 Using a combination of habitat (grassland) lamellar edge color (tan to brown to reddish), stipe base color (rufus), and match to trusted European sequences, Jean Lodge and I have come to the conclusion that these are olivaceomarginata. M. citrinomarginata occurs in forests and has lemon yellow gill margins and light stipes. All the characters, morphology and sequences, need to be checked as the ITS and LSU differences are very slight and the names are currently muddled in GenBank. See photos on page 199 in LAESSOE, T., AND J. H. PETERSEN. 2019. Fungi of temperate Europe, Volumes 1 & 2. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
in the HJ Andrews Forest between the 1506 road and Watershed #2. Unburned control. Old growth forest dominated by Pseudotsuga menziesii in the canopy plus Tsuga heterophylla, Thuja plicata and Taxus brevifolia. High moss cover including Hylacomnium splendens and Dicranum and Kindbergia.
Microscopy by Dan Morton with measurements by Bitty Roy in Image J
Spores range in length from 6.93-12.06µm with average (of 18)=9.01µm. In width they range from 3.67-8.73µm with average = 5.53µm.
Collected because they were on Douglas Fir log, which I have not seen.
in the HJ Andrews Forest between the 1506 road and Watershed #2. Unburned control. Old growth forest dominated by Pseudotsuga menziesii in the canopy plus Tsuga heterophylla, Thuja plicata and Taxus brevifolia. High moss cover including Hylacomnium splendens and Dicranum and Kindbergia.
Microscopy by Dan Morton: "The (cheilocystidia) size ranges from 18 - 25 x 5 - 10 µm excluding the short rod-like projections. They align with Mycena pusilla and Mycena constans. The spore size aligns better with Mycena constans (Smith has spore size at 6 - 8 x 3 - 3.5 µms) than Mycena pusilla (PNW Key 7 - 10 x (4) 5 - 6 or Smith 8.1 - 9.0 x 4 - 4.9).
Results: (6.2) 6.6 - 7.8(9.3) x (3.1) 3.3 - 3.7 (3.9) µm, Q = (1.8) 1.9 - 2.2 (2.4), N = 27, Me = 7.3 x 3.5 µm, Q e = 2.1.
I think the micro matches, but not sure if those larger "spores" are really conidia. The smaller spores match.
These are abundant on hardwoods right now, but I do not think I have seen them on what I think is a Douglas Fir chunk of wood. As this appears to be.