Hygrocybe insipida

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Ecology: Precise ecological role uncertain (see Lodge and collaborators, 2013). The illustrated collection was growing gregariously under hardwoods, in summer, in Illinois. Largent (1985) reports this species under coast redwood in fall and winter.

Cap: 5-20 mm; convex, becoming broadly convex; thinly sticky when fresh; bald; bright yellowish orange; darker over the center; the margin becoming thinly lined.

Gills: Beginning to run down the stem, or broadly attached to it; distant; thick; dull yellow.

Stem: 25-30 mm long; 1-2 mm thick; equal, with a slightly tapered base; thinly sticky when fresh; reddish orange, with a whitish base.

Flesh: Thin; yellowish to orangish.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 5-6.5 x 2.5-3.5 ; smooth; more or less ellipsoid, but occasionally constricted at the apicular end; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Basidia 4-sterigmate; up to 45 long. Hymenial cystidia absent. Lamellar trama parallel. Pileipellis an ixocutis or ixotrichoderm.

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