Orange Bonnet - Mycena acicula
The cap is very small, usually no more than 1 cm across and is strikingly yellowy orange in colour.
Damp deciduous broadleaf woodlands, often in areas of deep shade, where they grow attached to small dead twigs which may be buried beneath the top layer of leaf litter.
Autumn
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire & Rutland not known.
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
specimen examined
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
specimen examined
David Nicholls
Battram Wood
17 October 2015
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Species profile
- Common names
- Orange Bonnet
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Mycenaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 06/11/2013 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 15/09/2018 (Nicholls, David)
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