Taxonomy

Hygrocybe sp 2 ined. Text Patrick Leonard 2019

Red List Status -


Description

Pileus: planoconvex; 30 - 50 mm diameter; squamulose; grey brown rimose squamules on a violaceous grey background; margin lobed.

Stipe: cylindrical; 35 - 60 × 4 –7 mm; glabrous; buff at apex becoming pale cream below.

Gills: subdecurrent; distant; violaceous grey; lamellullae in two series

Flesh: whitish.

Spore print: white.

Spores:

Notes: this Hygrocybe did not readily fit any of the species in Horak or Young.

Patrick Leonard 2019

Geographical distribution