The fruitbody is a mushroom, with a cap atop a central stem, and is bright yellow overall. The caps grow to 2 centimetres or so in diameter and are convex to plane, but with a depressed centre. The cap surface has a sticky to gelatinous coating. A gelatinous ‘string’ runs along the gill edge. The stem, a few centimetres long, is smooth and also with a sticky to gelatinous coating.
Spore print: white.
There is neither a partial nor a universal veil.
A description of this species was first published in 1962 (as Hygrophorus chromolimonea), based in material collected in New Zealand. It has been found in many parts of eastern Australia, on soil amongst bryophytes and plant litter in wet forests.
Look-alikes
The combination of the bright yellow colour, the glutinous stem and cap and the gelatinous ‘string’ along the gill edge make this a distinctive species. Lichenomphalia chromacea is a common soil-inhabiting lichen and its fungal partner produces spores on a small, yellow mushroom, but one that is dry.
Hygrocybe chromolimonea is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | South Coast
Maps
ANBG Tuggeranong HillPlaces
Acton, ACT Theodore, ACT