German: Echte Knoblauchschwindling; Echter Mousseron; Kleiner Knoblauchschwindling.
Synonym: Marasmus scorodonius
Mycetinis scorodoniusSynonym: Marasmius scorodonius; Agaricus scorodonius.
Name: scorodon means garlic in Greek.
Region: northern and central Europe; eastern North America, North Africa, Asia, Israel.
Habitat: on conifer needles, also on sticks, debris, bark of conifers and deciduous trees, grasses and other plants; saprophyte, also a parasite of grass.
Use: edible, but taste is nasty or unpleasant; as a garlic flavour to dishes.
MycologyDistinction; small; smell and taste are strongly of garlic.
Type: small; fruiting from summer to late autumn.
Cap: beige; 1 to 3 cm; red brown, sometimes beige to ochre; hygrophanous, drying to a paler colour; slightly wrinkled.
Stipe: tough slender; 6 cm tall, 2 mm in diameter; bald and pale at the apex, reddish brown lower down, and dark brown or blackish at the base.
Hymenium: gills are white, fairly crowded, from adnate to almost free from the stem.
Spore print: white.
Spores: roughly ellipsoid; 7 to 11, by 3 to 5 µm; cheilocystidia on the gill edge are of the "broom cell" type, club-shaped with a number of finger-like protuberances.