Taxonomy
Hygrocybe sp 2
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