Fibrous Waxcap - Hygrocybe intermedia

Conical then expanding, sometimes lobed, surface dry and fibrous, centre scurfy, red then orange or orange-yellow, to about 6 cm across. Gills are only partly attached or free, whitish to pale yellow, thick, edge sometimes serrated.

In unimproved grassland.

Autumn

A widespread but not particularly common species in Britain.

Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland.