Cap convex, sulphur-yellow, with a darker orange centre. It expands with age, appearing smooth but with velar remnants attached to the margin. The flesh is sulphur-yellow, firm, and of moderate consistency. Gills crowded, adnate, initially sulphur yellow, becoming olive-green and progressively blackening as the spores ripen. Stem is more or less similarly coloured as the cap, but it is darker brown towards the base. The ring is zone-like, faint, and with maturity same colour as spores. Spore print purple brown.
Microscopic Features: The spores are ellipsoidal, smooth, measuring 6-7.8 x 4-4.5μm, and feature a small germ pore.
Hypholoma fasciculare on the First Nature Web site.
Hypholoma fasciculare on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
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