Orange Bonnet
Orange Bonnet - Mycena acicula
A tiny orange-red fungus found on twigs, etc. The cap is conical or bell-shaped and usually paler towards the edge. Gills are adnexed/free, white or pale yellow; the stipe is pale yellow.
Mycena adonis may also have a red-orange cap. Rickenella fibula is a very small orange grassland species with strongly decurrent gills.
Photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe. Note habitat and substrate.
Damp deciduous broadleaf woodlands, amongst moss and leaf litter on twigs and woody debris
Autumn
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire & Rutland not known.
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