Summary:
Also listed in Veined category. Section Albomycena (Smith). Features include very small size, white color, gills that are absent or appear as 3-5 low ridges, growth on redwood twigs and needles, and cylindric to needle-like spores. The description is derived from Smith(1).

Cap:
0.1-0.15cm across, conic - bell-shaped, the margin connivent at first; "pure shining white and opaque at all stages"

Flesh:
membranous; white

Gills:
smooth or 3-5 low ridges somewhat decurrent; presumably whitish

Stem:
1cm long, thread-like, top usually slightly enlarged, "base inserted on redwood twigs and on needles"; white; pruinose in upper part, base slightly pubescent [downy]

Odor:
none evident

Taste:
none evident

Microscopic spores:
spores (8)9-11 x 3-3.5 microns, cylindric to subaciculate [somewhat needle-like], tapered to a long point at base, smooth, amyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored; pleurocystidia-cheilocystidia scattered through hymenium and abundant over top of stem, 28-37 x 9-14 microns, fusoid-ventricose [spindle-shaped - wider in middle] with obtuse tops, cap surface covered with enlarged cells (15-30 x 10-16 microns), the upper surfaces of which give off numerous short rod-like projections

Spore deposit:
[presumably white]

Notes:
Mycena paucilamellata was described by Smith from Orick, CA. It has been reported from BC, (Redhead(5)), and there are three collections from BC at the University of British Columbia.

EDIBILITY

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Corticium pseudotsugae Burt
Phlebiella pseudotsugae (Burt) K.H. Larss. & Hjortstam