Name : : Hygrocybe aurantiosplendens

Coloration : :
Orange-yellow to orange-red cap and stipe.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :

Gill structure : :
Gills free, adnate or adnexed.

Description : :
A medium-sized fungi, convex viscid cap and dry smooth stipe. Gills slightly adnate, stipe fibrillose or pruinose at least at apex.

Widespread in Europe, but rare. Very rare in Denmark. Main habitat is unfertilised grasslands. Usually found growing in small groups of 15-20 carpophores.

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Name : : Hygrocybe calciphila

Coloration : :
Reddish-orange cap and gills, stipe yellow-orange; similar to Hygrocybe miniata.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :
Generally restricted to calcareous soils.

Gill structure : :
Gills reddish in colour and free, adnate or adnexed.

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Description : :
A small to medium sized fungi, Stipe and cap dry, with oblong spores.

Distribution is unknown but presumed to be widespread in Europe. It has been found in grasslands and roadsides - only found in Calcareous soils.

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Name : : Hygrocybe calyptriformis

Coloration : :
Cap pink, pale lilac, violet or blueish with a pale pink stipe.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :
Cap narrowly conical.

Gill structure : :

Description : :
A medium sized fungi, Stipe dry and cap dry to viscid. Cap often conical in shape and slightly darker in coloration to the stipe.

Widespread across Europe, also found in some parts of North America. Often found in unfertilised grasslands. Generally solitary or in small groups.

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Name : : Hygrocybe canescens

Coloration : :
Greyish cap and gills with a slightly paler stipe.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :

Gill structure : :
Gills decurrent and cap felty.

Description : :
Greyish fungi varying in size, Dry felty cap and stipe.

An American species which is rare to Europe, preferring unfertilised grasslands. Often found growing in groups.

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Name : : Hygrocybe cantharellus

Coloration : :
Reddish-orange cap and stipe with pale cream to white gills.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :
Squamules concolourous with cap.

Gill structure : :
Decurrent, cream to white gills.

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Description : :
Small to medium sized fungi, reddish orange in colour. Dry cap and stipe with decurrent gills.

World-wide distribution and widespread in Europe. Found in grasslands, woods and occasionally in Sphagnum bogs.

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Name : : Hygrocybe ceracea

Coloration : :
Bright yellow cap and Stipe with specks of white flesh in parts.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :
Cap convex and stipe less than 5 mm's in diameter.

Gill structure : :
Adnate to decurrent gills.

Description : :
Small fungi bright yellow in colour, Stipe dry and cap Viscid with adnate to decurrent gills. Stipe < 5 mm's in diameter, with narrow constricted spores.

Widespread in Europe preferring unfertilised grasslands and lawns. Also found in mosses and rich deciduous woods. Known as Hygrocybe subceracea in America.

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Name : : Hygrocybe chlorophana

Coloration : :
Yellow - pale orange cap, stipe and gills.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :
Cap convex and stipe more than 5 mm's in diameter.

Gill structure : :
Adnexed gills.

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Description : :
Small to medium sized fungi. Viscid cap and dry to viscid stipe. Stipe > 5 mm's in diameter.

Common in Northern hemisphere, found growing in groups in unfertilised grasslands.

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Name : : Hygrocybe citrinopallida

Coloration : :
Pale yellow cap with patches of white. White to pale cream stipe.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :
Viscid when young, drying out with age.

Gill structure : :
Distinctly decurrent gills.

Description : :
Small pale yellow or white fungi, Viscid cap and stipe in early stages turning dry with age. Cap convex with distinct decurrent gills, spores 8-10mu x 4.5-5mu.

Often found in North America and low-artic Greenland. Usually growing in or near moss, shrub heaths and drier parts of bogs.

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Name : : Hygrocybe citrinovirens

Coloration : :
Yellow cap and stipe with white gills.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :

Gill structure : :

Description : :
Medium sized yellow fungi. Dry conical cap and smooth or finely fibrilose stipe.

Found in small groups, widespread but rare in Europe. A British collection was found in deciduous woodland.

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Name : : Hygrocybe coccinea

Coloration : :
Bright red cap with reddish-orange stipe and gills.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :
Neutral smell.

Gill structure : :
Adnate, red-orange gills at least at base, with yellow edges.

Description : :
Medium sized, bright red fungi. Stipe dry, cap convex, viscid to dry. Gills red-orange at base with yellow edges.

Widespread in the North, Found in small groups in grasslands, deciduous woods and shrub lands.

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Name : : Hygrocybe coccineocrenata

Coloration : :
Orange-tan cap and stipe with white/cream gills.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :
Taste mild, with distinct dark squamules.

Gill structure : :
Decurrent white/cream gills.

Description : :
Small to medium fungi, reddish, orange-tan in colour with white/cream decurrent gills. Viscid to dry cap and gills with a mild taste and distinctly dark squamules.

Found in several European countries as well as North America. Prefers moist/damp places such as humid grasslands. Often solitary or in small groups.

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Name : : Hygrocybe colemannianna

Coloration : :
Dark orange-brown cap with cream/white stipe and gills.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :

Gill structure : :
Decurrent cream/white gills.

Description : :
Medium to large brown fungi with a viscid cap and dry stipe.

Found in small groups across Europe.

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Name : : Hygrocybe conica

Coloration : :
Variant in colour, but always turning black when handled/picked or with age.

Smell/distinct feature(s) : :

Gill structure : :

Description : :
A variant fungi which can include; Cap and stipe viscid; Stipe dry and cap viscid, Stipe dry and cap dry. The common features include a conical cap, which become black when handled or with age.

The most widely distributed species of Hygrocybe. Found in most areas of the world. Found solitary or in small groups restricted to grasslands.

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