Brown Mottlegill
Brown Mottlegill - Panaeolina foenisecii
Haymaker
The cap is bell-shaped. flattening to convex as it matures. Colour varies depending on whether it is wet or dry, from dark brown to pale beige or cream when dry; often with a paler centre. Gills pale brown, maturing to mottled dark brown. Spores dark brown with rough surface.
Mottlegills, especially Turf Mottlegill (Panaeolus fimicola)
Photograph from top down, in side-view and underneath to show gills; note habitat and substrate. This can be a difficult fungus to identify and we recommend that spores are examined, or that it is verified by an expert from a specimen before submission to NatureSpot.
Lawns, verges and mown grasslands
April to December.
Common and widespread throughout Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/panaeolina-foenisecii.php
[On the NBN under Order Agaricales and not assigned to a Family; but included here along with other mottlegills].
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