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  • Probably one of the C. comatus varieties since it’s the typical size in the typical habitat.

    Identifying most other Coprinus to species is pretty specialized knowledge in the first place and your post doesn’t have nearly enough information to do so. At the very least we’d need the location and closer photos including a cross section since that’s the only way to see the gills on a Coprinus.


  • Let me help you feel a little more qualified, understanding different veil types and how they tear is a great way to level up you ID skills.

    G. marginata has a fibrilose membranous partial veil which often leaves a persistent ring or a noticeable line on the stem.

    The remnant in your photo looks like it came from a cobweb veil/cortina which is fleeting and doesn’t leave much of a mark on the stem.

    Here’s a photo from Alan Rockefeller that shows some Galerina marginata with intact veils and veils that are beginning to tear.

    The veils often wear off and don’t leave much of a remnant but they probably wouldn’t leave a single cobwebby strand like that with no color variation on either stem.

    For comparison, here’s a Cortinarius sp. with a thick cortinate partial veil:

    And here Hypholoma capnoides which is has a pseudo-cortinate veil somewhere in between a membranous veil and a cortina:

    There are other species in Galerina and other genera with effervescent cobweb veils so this is a good clue you probably found one of those rather than G. marginata. Not that I blame you for not wanting to learn the subtleties between LBMs, mycologists didn’t want to either which is why they shoved them all in Galerina and why the genetic data is now telling us that Galerina needs to be split into something like five genera.