Cortinarius croceus

Appearance

Pileus
Cap 30-80 mm broad, at first convex, becoming convex-umbonate, maturing plano-convex, often with a low umbo; margin decurved, level in age, occasionally wavy; surface dry, finely appressed fibrillose to silky-fibrillose; color when young, yellowish-brown to olivaceous brown, margin paler, becoming dark orange to reddish brown in age; KOH dark reddish brown on surface; context thin, up to 3 mm near disc, rapidly thinning towards margin, soft, drab yellow, unchanging; odor not distinctive; taste mild, radish-like in some forms.

Lamellae
Gills adnate to notched, sometimes with a decurrent tooth, close to subdistant; color at first yellowish with olivaceous tints, becoming pale orange brown, maturing dark orange brown; gills relatively broad, 15-20 mm in width; lamellulae in 3-4 series.

Stipe
Stipe 30-60 x 5-10 (12) mm in width, slender, equal to slightly enlarged at base, round to flattened, hollow in age, relatively brittle; surface pale yellow, fibrillose-striate, fibrils dull orange to brown; partial veil cortinate, yellowish, forming an ephemeral cobwebby veil high on the stipe and scattered fibrils below; yellowish tomentum at base.

Naming

Dermocybe crocea

Habitat

Scattered to gregarious in needle duff of conifers, occasional with hardwoods; widely distributed, coastal and montane.