Orange Mosscap

Rickenella fibula – Inedible

Forests, especially coniferous, parks, among mosses and grass. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies tiny, minute. Cap 0.5-1.5 cm across, convex-flattened, depressed, surface smooth, yellowish-orange, fading to yellowish, the margin furrowed. Gills brownish, yellow, decurrent. Stem 3-6 (8)x0.1-0.2 cm, the colour of the cap. Flesh pale. Characteristic features: orange, minute fruiting bodies. Grows singly or in groups, only in forests. Very common. Saprotroph. Very similar is Rickenella setipes (Fr.) Raith., but its cap is reddish-brown and bluish-black in the centre. It appears in the same places.