08/Nov/24, 3:31 PM
Lubja, Harjumaa, Estonia
Mixed woodland edge, in mossy ground
59°31'28.3"N 24°49'56.2"E
🔆 Mild overcast, deep forest shade
Original Instagram postHygrocybe miniata
vermilion waxcap
- Scientific identification
- Hygrocybe miniata (Fr.) P.Kumm.
- Family
- Hygrophoraceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Hygrocybe
Names across languages
- English: vermilion waxcap
- German: Mennigroter Saftling
- Finnish: Mönjävahakas
- Estonian: Kinaver-vesinutt
- Russian: Гигроцибе киноварно-красная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-11-08.
Hymenium
Gills, moderately spaced, pale orange to reddish-orange, sometimes with a yellowish edge
Cap
Convex to flat, often with a small central depression, surface dry, finely scurfy or granular, bright scarlet to orange-red, fading to orange or yellowish with age
Hymenium Attachment
Adnexed to slightly adnate
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical, dry, smooth or faintly fibrous, scarlet to reddish-orange, often paler towards the base, hollow
Spore print
Spore print white
Description
Likely saprobic, in mossy grasslands, heaths, woodland edges, nutrient-poor or acidic soils, late summer to autumn
Edibility
Edible, but insubstantial
Fruit body
Fruit body small, stipe 3–6 cm long, 2–4 mm thick
Dimensions
Cap 1–4 cm in diameter
Chemical reactions
KOH negative on cap surface
Odour
Odour faintly grassy
Taste
Taste indistinct
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid or constricted and subpyriform, smooth, 5–9 x 3–4.5 µm, hyaline in KOH, inamyloid, basidia 35–45 µm, 4-sterigmate
Overview
Small, brightly colored waxcap with a dry, scarlet to orange cap
1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 112.
Field encounters
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