Butter Waxcap - Hygrocybe ceracea

This is a small fungus. The cap is  greasy and slippery to touch, but not slimy or sticky.  It is 2.5cm across and is deep yellow to pale orange with faint striations towards the perimeter.  Older specimens are usually paler than young specimens, which are often orange. The stem is concolorous with the cap and narrows slightly towards the base.  The gills are broadly attached to the stipe (adnate) and often slightly decurrent.

Golden Waxcap, Hygrocybe chlorophana, has a sticky, not a greasy, cap, and gills are narrowly attached (adnate) to stipe.  There are several other species of yellow waxcaps

Your notes must state the texture (sticky/greasy/dry) of cap and stipe and photos should show gills as well as cap

Found in short grass and lawns, often in churchyards.

Late summer to autumn

Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.

Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.