Hygrocybe miniata

A small species (barely over 1.5 cm) associated with alpine habitats, with a convex orange cap.

Suprapellis with a thin superficial layer of narrow hyphae separated by gelification, septate with indistinct clamps; beneath this layer lie hyaline hyphae or hyphae with faint yellowish intracellular pigment, arranged parallelly, 7-15 µm wide, septate with minute clamp connections at the septa.

Gill edge without differentiated cystidial elements (cystidia absent).

Basidia cylindric-clavate, 35-50 µm long and 10-11 µm wide, with basal clamps, 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a lateral apiculus at one end, vacuolar content with one or more internal oil droplets, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.