Plants and animals of Pointfield

Small toadstool ca. 0.5-2.0 cm in diameter. Cap conical, yellow-orange in colour with darker orange-brown apex and paler striate margin. Gills straw-coloured, weakly adnexe but broadly attached to stem; rather large and clearly seen in side view when applanate; no coloured edge or mottling of gills. 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 orange-brown. Spores large, ellipsoidal, lightly granular, thick-walled with no germ pore; 12.0-14.0 x 6.2-7.1 um, mean = 13.1 x 6.7 um, N = 12; Qav = 2.0; orange-brown in colour. Cheilocystidia abundant – lecythiform, almost all short bowling-pin-like with swollen to rounded heads. No pleurocystidia. Caulocystidia large and capitate.

Meadow and mossy short grass areas; common.