Mycena viscidocruenta Cleland

Common name: None.

Description: The caps are 12 cm in diameter and are convex, blood-red, glutinous and radially striate. The gills are adnate to a little arcuate and blood-red or slightly paler. The stems may be up to 5 cm long and are usually about 1 mm thick; they are smooth, blood-red and glutinous.

The spores measure 79.5 × 2.54 µm and are ellipsoidal, smooth, colourless but white in mass.

Substratum: Mycena viscidocruenta occurs on litter, twigs and occasionally small branches in forests or very sheltered locations. One collection site was on small twigs in very dense and high grass in open snow gum woodland on the New England Tableland of New South Wales. It is usually gregarious or caespitose.

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

Notes: Mycena viscidocruenta is actually very common but its small and unobtrusive nature means that is often overlooked.