Yellowleg Bonnet - Mycena epipterygia
A small Bonnet with a sticky campanulate cap; it is covered in a glutinous pellicle that can be peeled away. The cap colour is quite vriable from a pale olive-brown to yellowish-green or greyish; the gills are pale yellow to grey, and the long viscid stipe is pale yellowish-grey/green.
Photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe. Note texture of cap, habitat and substrate.
woodlands and heathlands, on grassy or woody debris
Found in summer and autumn
Fairly frequent and widespread in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Melinda Bell
Ratby,bridleway to Martinshaw Wood
07 November 2023
Melinda Bell
Ratby,bridleway to Martinshaw Wood
07 November 2023
David Nicholls
Charnwood Lodge
11 October 2023
Melinda Bell
Ratby,bridleway to Martinshaw Wood
07 November 2023
Lostash
Leicester Botanical Gardens
19 October 2014
David Nicholls
Burbage Common
22 October 2005
David Nicholls
Charnwood Lodge
11 October 2023
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Species profile
- Common names
- Yellowleg Bonnet
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Mycenaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 22/10/2005 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 07/11/2023 (Bell, Melinda)
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