Gliophorus laetus (Pers.) Herink
Sb. severočesk. Mus., Hist. Nat. 1: 84. 1958

Common Name: none

Synonyms: Hygrophorus laetus (Pers.) Fr; Hygrocybe laeta (Pers.) P. Kumm

• Description

  For description see Hesler & Smith.

• Habitat

  Solitary to scattered to gregarious in duff of conifer forests, especially redwood. Common in northwestern coastal forests. Rare south.

• Edibility

  Unknown.

• Comments

  Gliophorus laetus is distinctive by is variably colored sporocarps and decurrent gills. Gliophorus psittacinus can have similarly colored caps, but not decurrent gills.

• References

  Bas, C., Kyper, T.W., Noordeloos, M.E. & Vellinga, E.C. (1990). Flora Agaricina Neerlandica—Critical monographs on the families of agarics and boleti occuring in the Netherlands. Volume 2. Pleurotaceae, Pluteaceae, Tricholomataceae. A. A. Balkema: Rotterdam, Netherlands. 137 p.
  Boertmann, D. (1996). The Genus Hygrocybe (Fungi of Northern Europe, Vol. 1). Danish Mycological Society: Copenhagen, Denmark. 184 p.
  Boertmann, D. (2010). The Genus Hygrocybe (2nd revised edition). Danish Mycological Society: Copenhagen, Denmark. 200 p.
  Hesler, L.R. & Smith, A.H. (1963). North American Species of Hygrophorus. University of Tennessee Press: Knoxville, TN. 416 p. (PDF)
  Knudsen, H. & Vesterholt, J. ed. (2008). Funga Nordica: Agaricoid, boletoid and cyphelloid genera. Nordsvamp: Copenhagen, Denmark. 965 p.
  Knudsen, H. & Vesterholt, J. ed. (2012). Funga Nordica: Agaricoid, boletoid, clavarioid, cyphelloid and gastroid genera. Vol. 1. Nordsvamp: Copenhagen, Denmark. 511 p.
  Siegel, N. & Schwarz, C. (2016). Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast. Ten Speed Press: Berkeley, CA. 601 p.

• Other Descriptions and Photos
  Main Photo
  • Noah Siegel: Gliophorus laetus (CP)
  • Darvin DeShazer: Gliophorus laetus (CP)
  • Mushroom Observer: Gliophorus laetus (CP)
  • First Nature: Gliophorus laetus (D & CP)
  • Phillips: p. 68-69 (D & CP) [as Hygrophorus laetus]
  
  

  (D=Description; I=Illustration; P=Photo; CP=Color Photo)