Yellowleg Bonnet
From the latest record: 2026-10-11.
Gills moderately spaced; white to cream when young, becoming faintly pinkish with age; edges sometimes gelatinous
Conical to bell-shaped when young, later broadly convex to nearly flat; smooth, strongly viscid when moist, with a separable gelatinous pellicle; pale yellowish-grey; margin distinctly translucent-striate
Adnate to slightly decurrent, often with a short decurrent tooth
Very slender, cylindrical, hollow and fragile; lemon-greenish-yellow; smooth, viscid, covered with a separable gelatinous layer; ring absent
Spore print white to very pale cream
Saprobic on conifer needle litter, moss, decaying twigs, woody debris; mainly spruce and pine forests, also mixed woodland, damp grassland and heathland; scattered to gregariously; late summer to autumn
Not recommended; tiny, fragile and insubstantial
Fruit body small; stipe ~3–8 cm long and ~0.1–0.3 cm thick
Cap ∅ ~1–3 cm
Flesh whitish, pale yellowish, very thin and fragile, unchanging when cut
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Faintly mealy, iodine-like
Indistinct
Spores ellipsoid to cylindrical, smooth, hyaline, amyloid, ~8–11 × 4–6 µm; basidia 4-spored; cheilocystidia irregularly clavate with numerous finger-like projections; pleurocystidia absent; pileipellis an ixocutis
Tiny slimy woodland bonnet with a bright yellow-green stipe and peelable gelatinous cap skin
1821). Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 619.
Kloostrimets, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Mixed forest (pine-mapple-elm-rowan), woodland track, in soil, within wood and conifer organic remains
59°27'59.4"N 24°50'49.7"E
🌡️ 11°C ☁️ Overcast 💨 Wind 120° ESE->WNW, 13 km/h
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