Cap is pallid tan with a yellowish tinge, darker brown towards the centre. It is initially conical, becoming campanulate. The cuticle is very sticky and peelable, with striate-sulcate markings, and the margin is faintly denticulate. The flesh is whitish and thin. Gills whitish or with pink tinge, more or less adnate with decurrent tooth, narrow and fairly distant. Stem yellowish, smooth, sticky, slender and more or less equal in width. It has no ring. Spore print white or very pale buff.
Microscopic Features: Spores are broadly ellipsoidal to cylindrical, smooth, measuring 8-11 x 4-6µm; they are amyloid.
Mycena epipterygia on the Firs Nature Web site.
Mycena epipterygia on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
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