Golden Waxcap
Hygrocybe chlorophana
Cap Diameter (mm): 
20-40mm
Stem Diameter (mm): 
3-5mm
Stem Height (mm): 
40-80mm
 
Description: 

A small yellowish-orange fungus with a sticky cap found usually in small troops on soil in cropped or short grassland.

Cap: 

Initially campanulate or convex, becoming flattened and broadly umbonate with age, yellow or lemon-yellow, extremely viscid, especially when young, striate margin.

Flesh: 

Cap flesh is thin and yellow, stem flesh stuffed and yellow.

Gills: 

Adnate, broad and fairly distant, initially pale yellow, becoming lemon-yellow with age.

Stem: 

Slender, viscid, more or less equal, ring absent, concolorous with the cap.

Distribution: 

Frequent from late Summer to Autumn.

Habitat: 

Found growing in short or cropped grassland, usually in small trooping groups.

Additional Notes: 

Similar to H. flavens.