A small orange-brown fungus that has a very slimy cap and stem that can be found growing in small troops in short cropped grass and in moss, particularly on moorland.
Infrequent from late Summer till Autumn.
In soil on short or cropped grassland, associated with moorland.
Initially hemispherical, then convex and finally flattened, hygrophanous, striate almost to the centre with a slightly toothed margin. Very viscid.
Cap flesh is thin and watery, orange-brown in colour, stem flesh is concolorous, full or stuffed, fibrous.Taste and odour not distinctive.
Slightly decurrent, broad and close, pallid greyish-white initially with an olivaceous tinge then more salmon coloured.
Slender, more or less equal, very viscid, concolorous with the cap with an olivaceous tinge at the apex when young, whitish at the base, ring absent.
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