Conocybe aurea

Hymeniform cutis, composed of spherical or pyriform, clavate hyphae of large size (up to 60 µm), with scattered pileocystidia containing ochraceous intracellular pigment.

Cheilocystidia lecythiform, with a capitulum diameter between 3.5 and 5.5 µm.

Pleurocystidia absent.

Basidia clavate, ventricose, rather short (up to 25 µm long), 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, thick-walled, ochraceous brown under the microscope, with an inconspicuous apiculus at one end and a conspicuous truncated germ pore at the opposite end, darkening significantly in strong bases (KOH or Ammonia).