Orange Bonnet - Mycena acicula
A tiny orange-red fungus found on twigs, etc. The cap is conical or bell-shaped and usually paler towards the edge. Gills are adnexed/free, white or pale yellow; the stipe is pale yellow.
Mycena adonis may also have a red-orange cap. Rickenella fibula is a very small orange grassland species with strongly decurrent gills.
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Damp deciduous broadleaf woodlands, amongst moss and leaf litter on twigs and woody debris
Autumn
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire & Rutland not known.
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
det R Iliffe from specimen
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
det. R Iliffe from specimen
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Species profile
- Common names
- Orange Bonnet
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Mycenaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 06/11/2013 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 20/10/2016 (Gould, Jamie)
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