Plants and animals of Pointfield

Small toadstool ca. 0.5-2.0 cm in diameter. Cap initially conical becoming aplanate, pink/yellow in colour with rose apex and paler yellow striate margin; faint fine radial banding around outer part. Gills yellow, adnexe but broadly attached to stem; rather large and clearly seen in side view when applanate. Stalk slender, about 2-3 mm diameter and to 6 cm tall; solid, similar in colour to the cap and sometimes almost translucent; pruinose towards the cap. Spore-print white. Spores large, ellipsoidal, smooth, thick-walled with no germ pore; 12.0-14.0x 6.2-7.1 um, mean = 13.1 x 6.7um,N = 12; Q = 2.0; orange-brown in colour. Cheilocystidia abundant – tibiform, with swollen to rounded heads, occasionally more fusiform or lageniform. No pleurocystidia. Caulocystidia large and capitate.

Meadow and mossy short grass areas; common.