Hygrocybe-like fungus, any ideas?

[SheffieldLass]

I found this one 2 days ago, solitary, in woodland with pine plantation on one side, deciduous upland woodland on the other side, but directly under a holly sapling in mainly pine needle litter.



Cap and stem are viscid. Smell unpleasant, yeasty. Gills mauve-grey with paler edge, but reddish near cap edge. Decurrent, otherwise I'd have wondered about Hygrocybe perplexa. No obvious cheilocystidia. Spores are quite variable in size, hyaline, and appear to be amyloid (the gill squash darkened quite noticebly shortly after applying Melzers and the spores look bluish).

Gill squash, 10x

Spores in Melzers
Basidia 40-50 um long, 5-6.5um dia
Cap scalp squash 10x, showing gelatinised cells
Medallion clamp
Stipipellis.

Spore sizes are 6.6-9.6 (13.2) x (3.4) 3.9-4.9 (5.3) Qav = 1.8

Any ideas what it could be?

Melanie

[SheffieldLass]

P.S. Hygrocybe are starting to come through even though it is very dry. Found my first H pratensis, H quieta, H virginea, and H insipida of the season on Weds, and the first H calyptriformis of the season today.