Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap to 20 mm diameter, initially domed but flattening with age though never concave; pale straw colour with a brown centre, drying to a uniform pale cream; surface of cap dry with a felt-like texture. Gills a distinct cream-yellow colour; sinuate with broad connection to the stem and with a slightly decurrent tooth; edge of gill paler and frayed. Stem up to 35 mm by 1.8 mm; hollow; pale cream in colour with fine fuzz towards the top and white hyphal threads at base.

Spore print a pinkish orange; spores ellipsoidal without germ pore but surface finely granular; 5.8-7.1 x 3.3-4.0 um; (mean = 6.1 x 3.6 um, n = 20). Cheilocystidia common, thin-walled and lageniform to cylindrical. Basidia 4-spored.

Very numerous under Cotoneaster tree near bottom of garden in short grass covered in Cotoneaster berries.