A small, red fungus with a domed cap and red gills found growing in small troops on soil among cropped, short or mown grass.
Infrequent from late Summer till Autumn.
In soil on short, cropped or mown grassland.
Initially hemispherical the convex, scarlet or blood-red, greasy or matt, faintly fibrilose.
Cap flesh is thin, reddish-orange and unchanging, stem flesh is fibrous and orange.
Broadly adnate with a decurrent tooth, distant, pallid yellow initially the blood-red with age.
More or less equal, may be compressed towards the base, concolorous with the cap or more orange, may be paler towards the base, ring absent, longitudinally fibrilose.
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