Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap to 5 cm in diameter, domed, pinkish orange, drying paler; with a finely but distinctly scurfy surface; without radial banding. Gills rather thick and waxy, decurrant, flesh-coloured and unbranched. Stalk long and widening slightly towards base; orange-brown to red-brown and finely fibrilose with fibres usually twisted; with white flecks; no ring; fine short white hyphae at base. Spore print white. Spores more or less spherical and highly spiny; 6.9-8.8 x 6.5-8.3 um, mean = 7.8 x 7.7 um, N = 16; Q = 1.03. No cystidia.

The sphaerical spores separate this from L. proxima.

In grass beside trellis near hazel tree.