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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Basidiomycota
Subdivisio: Agaricomycotina
Classis: Agaricomycetes
Subclassis: Agaricomycetidae
Ordo: Agaricales
Genus: Baeospora

Baeospora myosura, commonly known as conifercone cap, is a species of fungus that produces agaricoid fruit bodies on decaying pine and spruce cones. The pileus is pale brown to cream, the lamellae are pale and very crowded, and the spore print is white or cream and amyloid. It is commonly found in North America and Europe. It is regarded as nonpoisonous but is of unknown edibility.[2]
References

Singer R. (1938). "Notes sur quelques Basidiomycetes". Revue de Mycologie (in French). 3: 187–99.
Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.

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