Orange Mosscap - Rickenella fibula
This is a small orange fungus, the cap usually measuring less than 1 cm in diameter. The gills are quite widely spaced and run down the stem for a short distance. Spore print white.
Other small orange fungi occur in mossy grassland.
Check for very decurrent gills
It grows amongst moss.
Autumn.
Widespread and quite frequent throughout Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
09 October 2019
AJ Cann
Knighton
09 January 2016
AJ Cann
Knighton
09 January 2016
sue
Ashby de la Zouch Cemetery
18 November 2023
Alan Semper
Harby garden
02 November 2016
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Species profile
- Common names
- Orange Mosscap
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Hymenochaetales
- Family:
- Rickenellaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 15
- First record:
- 01/09/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 04/11/2024 (Timms, Sue)
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Alan Semper
Harby garden
02 November 2016
egaten
Bagworth Heath
14 October 2022
David Nicholls
Charnwood Lodge
01 September 2012
AJ Cann
Ulverscroft
24 September 2017
sue
Hinckley, Ashby Rd Cemetery
14 November 2023
AJ Cann
Ulverscroft
24 September 2017
Spore print white
sue
Ashby de la Zouch Cemetery
18 November 2023
sue
Ashby de la Zouch Cemetery
18 November 2023
sue
Hinckley, Ashby Rd Cemetery
14 November 2023
sue
Knipton, churchyard
04 November 2024
