Plants and animals of Pointfield

Large fungus up to 12 cm diameter. Cap initially rather pink in hue with paler edges and domed; covered with fine darker flecks - denser towards the centre - giving it a stubbly appearance; turning rusty orange with age and becoming funnel-shaped; no umbo; fine striations around the edge of mature cap. Gills off-white, becoming dark rusty brown with age; fine fragments of velar on gill and cap edge when young. Stem expanding downwards to a bulbous base that shows minor yellow staining; fibrous; reddish-brown below persistent upward turned ragged collar; paler above collar; turning almost black with age. Individual or as a dense cluster of individuals.

Spore print white. Spores small and ovoid without ornament; inamyloid; 6.3-7.5 x 4.1-4.7 um; mean 6.9 x 4.5 um, n = 20. Cheilocystidea sparse, fusiform to clavate, the fusiform ones being two- or three-celled. Pleurocystidia absent.

A large clump formed in the short-grass meadow close to the fallen cherry tree in 2021. Also seen occasionally in open wooded areas of grass.