Mycena californiensis, a fungus species found in the coastal oak woodlands of California
First described in 1860 by Berkeley and Curtis, the species was collected four years earlier during an exploring and surveying expedition.
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The fruit bodies grow in clusters or scattered on the decomposing leaves and acorns of oak trees, such as Coast Live Oak, Valley Oak and Black Oak.
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The single collection was found growing on fallen oak leaves at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, in Solano County, California in January 1856.
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The specimen was sent by American mycologist Moses Ashley Curtis to his British colleague Miles Joseph Berkeley, who published a brief description of the species in 1860, calling it Agaricus californiensis, in what was then the subgenus Mycena.