Mycena austrororida Singer

Common name: None.

Description: The caps are 12 cm in diameter, dry, smooth and convex. They are white or pale cream-coloured with light and dark striations on the surface. The white gills are adnate to arcuate. The stems are 46 cm long, 12 mm thick, and are white, smooth and intensely glutinous with the gluten forming a thick sheath over the stem surface.

The spores are 9.515.5 × 69 µm ellipsoidal, smooth and colourless but white in mass.

Substratum: This species occurs in tufts or small colonies on the surface of rotting logs and branches in forests.

Distribution: Known from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania.

Notes: This delicate and attractive Mycena is easily distinguished by its overall white colouration, its habitat and the thick gluten layer over the stem. Mycena austrororida was first described by Singer from Chile in South America and it is also known from New Zealand. This distribution suggests that this species has its origins in the flora of Gondwana.