Yellowleg Bonnet

Yellowleg Bonnet - Mycena epipterygia

Description

A small Bonnet with a sticky campanulate cap; it is covered in a glutinous pellicle that can be peeled away. The cap colour is quite vriable from a pale olive-brown to yellowish-green or greyish; the gills are pale yellow to grey, and the long viscid stipe is pale yellowish-grey/green. 

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe.  Note texture of cap, habitat and substrate.

Habitat

woodlands and heathlands, on grassy or woody debris

When to see it

Found in summer and autumn

UK Status

Fairly frequent and widespread in Britain.

VC55 Status

Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

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Yellow squares = NBN records (all known data)
Coloured circles = NatureSpot records: 2025+ | 2020-2024 | pre-2020

UK Map

Additional images

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All NatureSpot records