1 November 2020 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, sometimes with a depressed centre, with translucent radial lines, margin sometimes scalloped, surface greasy, red, orange or yellow, about 5 to 25 mm across Gills Broadly adnexed to decurrent, orange to yellow, often with a paler margin Stem Cylindrical, sometimes broader at the apex, sometimes greasy when fresh, otherwise dry, reddish orange to yellow Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Common Habitat On acid soil in unimproved grassland Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal to cylindrical, a small number constricted, smooth (6-7.5) x (3-4) µm2 Notes Rather similar to Hygrocybe ceracea which usually has the majority of its spores constricted 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 1 November 2020 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |