Reconnaissance and a Rickenella

Went to go check on a few potential sites for grassland fungi today – see if they look like they'd be worth visiting when we finally get some rain.

There was very little to see from a mycologist's perspective, but in a shaded mossy corner of one churchyard, I came across these little Orange Mosscaps Rickenella fibula.

I'm sure I must have come across this species before, but never paid it much attention. With those pale decurrent gills it's quite an elegant little thing.

I read in the new 'Fungi of Temperate Europe' (Laessoe & Petersen) that it has prominent cystidia along the stipe, and so it does:

Stipe in silhouette under the stereomicroscope.

For the record
Date: 14/09/2019
Location: Lower Beeding
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