''Mycena roseoflava'' is a species of
agaric mushroom in the family
Mycenaceae
The Mycenaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. According to the ''Dictionary of the Fungi'' (10th edition, 2008), the family contains 10 genera and 705 species. This is one of several families that were separated from the Tricholom ...
.
It was first discovered in 1964 by
New Zealand mycologist
Greta Stevenson.
It is a wood-inhabiting mushroom native to New Zealand.
The small fungus is
saprotrophic, meaning it gains nutrients from decaying organic matter and appears on stressed or dying plants, often found on rotting wood and twigs. As matter decomposes within a medium in which a saprotroph is residing, the saprotroph breaks such matter down into its composites.
''M. roseoflava'' has white spores with small white
caps, normally standing at a height of 5-10 millimeters and an equal width. It is most active in the autumn season and is not considered edible.
The stem relatively short is often attached to the side of wood, usually with a slightly swollen stem base. It is rare to see in
Victoria, where it has only found only in wetter forests and rainforests, but is somewhat common in
Tasmania.
In the first descriptions of the mushroom, Stevenson noted the caps were "pink fading yellowish, hemispherical with a shallow central umbilicus." The texture of the caps were smooth to minutely