A small, greenish-yellow fungus with a slimy cap that is found growing in soil on short or cropped grassland.
Initially greenish in colour, yellowing with age, and on drying, convex or campanulate, becoming flattened and umbonate, when young, the cap is very viscid with green gluten, margin is striate.
Cap flesh is thin, pallid, tinged greenish yellow, stem flesh similat to cap flesh, stuffed. Odour and taste not distinctive.
Adnate, broad and fairly distant, yellowish towards the margin, greenish towards the cap.
Slender, very viscid, more or less equal, greenish towards the apex, yellowish elsewhere, ring absent.
Infrequent from late Summer till Autumn.
On soil among short, cropped or mown grass.
Confusion can occur due to the marked colour variations.
