Cap beige or pale flesh-coloured, with the centre tinged darker. It starts out conical and becomes expanded to a bell shape, with translucent striations almost reaching the centre when moist. The flesh is pale, watery, and thin. Gills reach the stipe, are ascending, and narrowly adnate. They range in colour from white to pale grey, often turning a pale brownish flesh colour to dingy pink with age. Stem hollow, cylindrical, and equal in thickness, ranging from straight to curved. It is fragile, pruinose, and becomes smooth with age. The colour varies from whitish or grey to grey-brown, usually darker towards the base, which is densely covered with long, white fibrils. It has no ring.
Spore print white.
Microscopic Features: The spores are hyaline, smooth, broadly ellipsoid, and amyloid, often containing droplets, and measure 7–9.5 × 3.5–4.5 µm.
Mycena metata on the mycena.no Web site.
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