Plants and animals of Pointfield

Small toadstool ca. 1.0-1.5 cm in diameter. Cap conical, yellow-orange in colour with darker orange-brown apex and paler margin; distinct darker fine radial banding around outer part; as it ages it turns to a buff colour. Gills adnate, yellow-orange in colour, unbranched; edge white and finely frayed. Stalk slender, about 1-1.5 mm diameter and up to 5 cm tall; solid, pale orange brown like cap at top but often becoming darker downwards; surface prunose covered with fine fuzz (cystidea) towards the cap.

Spore-print orange-brown. Spores amyloid; ovate and smooth-walled or with minimal surface granulation; usually with 2-3 oil inclusions; outer layer firmly attached. Spores are a light brown and stain a dark brown in Meltzer’s reagent. Spores 8.0-9.4 x 5.2-6.2 um; mean = 8.8 x 5.8 um; n=15; Q = 1.5. Stalk with prominent lageniform cystidea in upper part. Gill edge with abundant lageniform cystidea with long tapering heads that are never capitate; gill walls with only very rare cystidea. Basidia 4-spored.

Growing in mossy grass around the garden.