Pink Edge Bonnet

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Mycena capillaripes is saprobic on dead, decayed needle of litter of Pinopsida

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Mycena capillaripes is saprobic on dead, decayed needle of litter of Pinus

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Mycena capillaripes is saprobic on dead, decayed needle of litter of Picea

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Mycena capillaripes is saprobic on dead, decayed needle of litter of Tsuga heterophylla

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Mycena capillaripes is saprobic on dead, decayed leaf of litter of Fagus
Other: unusual host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Mycena capillaripes is saprobic on dead, decayed leaf of litter of Betula
Other: unusual host/prey

Plant / associate
fruitbody of Mycena capillaripes is associated with Sphagnum
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Mycena capillaripes is saprobic on dead, decayed leaf of litter of Broadleaved trees
Other: unusual host/prey

Guidance for identification (German text)

Prunulus capillaripes (Peck) Murrill
Mycena capillaripes Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 41: 63. 1888.
Pileus membranous, campanulate, 12 mm. broad; surface glabrous, hygrophanous, livid-gray or brownish when moist, paler when dry, margin striate when moist: context having a weak alkaline odor; lamellae adnate, ascending, subdistant, white or livid-white, darkbrownish-purple on the margin: spores narrowly eUipsoid, 7.5 X 4^: stipe slender, subcapillary, fragile, glabrous, concolorous, hollow, 3.5-6.5 cm. long, 1 mm. thick.
Type locality: Kamer, New York.
Habitat: Under pine trees.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.