Hygrocybe cerinolutea
E. Horak 1973
Description:
A small, pure yellow waxgill with a dry, minutely squamulose cap and broadly adnate to decurrent gills lacking any orange or red tinge

Pileus: 10-25 mm, hemispherical when young, then convex and expanded, often flat at centre; golden to lemon yellow, hygrophanous, dry, estriate, minutely squamulose to felty.
Lamellae: broadly adnate to decurrent with a short tooth; coloured like the pileus or deep yellow; never orange or red; edge concolorous, even.
Stipe: 25-40 x 3-5 mm, cylindric, equal or slightly attenuated below; concolorous with pileus, yellowish‑grey near base; dry, glabrous, waxy; hollow or stuffed.
Context: yellow,
Odour/tast: not distinctive.

Common name: None
Habitat: Lowland podocarp-broadleaf forest
Substrate: Saprobic, on soil amidst leaf litter
Distribution: New Zealand wide
Season: Autumn
Biostatus: Endemic to New Zealand
Edible: No
Spore print: White
Macro images:
Hygrocybe species
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PDD 94765    Scale= 7.5 mm.
 
Hygrocybe species
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Scale= 7 mm.
 
Hygrocybe species
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Scale= 10 mm.
 
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