Hygrophorus nemoreus

A species associated with broadleaf trees, having a dry orange-colored cap.

Pileipellis filamentous, composed of thin-walled hyphae arranged more or less parallelly to very slightly interwoven, non-gelatinized, 3-7 µm wide, with faint brownish intracellular pigment inside, septate with clamped septa.

Cystidia and other sterile hymenial elements absent.

Lamellar trama regular to bilateral.

Basidia cylindric-clavate, 40-50 µm long and 6.5-8.5 µm wide, with basal clamps, 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a very prominent eccentric apiculus at one end, one or more oil droplets inside, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.