Mycena aff. haematopus (Pers. : Fr.) P.Kumm.

Common name: None.

Description: The caps are up to 2 cm in diameter, conical, usually a little plicate and dry; they are wine-brown with darker radial streaks, often paler at the margins. The gills are white to cream (usually with darker margins) and ascending. The stems are up to 5 cm long and 12 mm thick, usually short and curved, wine-brown, smooth and dry; they exude drops of plum-coloured juice when broken.

The spores measure 710 × 46 µm, and are ellipsoidal, smooth, colourless but white in mass.

Substratum: This species appears in tufts and clusters on rotting logs in rainforest or between cracks in the bark of vertical, dead trunks or on old stumps.

Distribution: Known from Queensland and New South Wales.

Notes: Another species, Mycena aff. sanguinolenta, also releases a plum-coloured juice from its stem when it is broken. However, this species occurs separately or gregariously on litter and has much longer, straighter stems with caps that are more rounded-conical.