Yellow Navel

Description:

Small gilled mushrooms with bright yellow caps. The widest was about 10 mm and broadly convex. Centres were depressed with radial markings running towards the margins. Cap margins were thin and pale. Gills were a pale yellow, spaced and slightly decurrent. Stipes were yellow and narrow with a small amount of mycelium at the base.

Habitat:

Spotted in small colonies along a track. Growing in algae-covered ground on an earth bank.

Notes:

I've just found some interesting information about this delicate little fungus. This fungus is always seen on algae-covered ground and is supposed by some mycologists to be a lichenised fungus (the fungal component of a lichen). family Tricholomataceae