Bright Nolaneas     Section

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)

Spores pink or reddish

Terrestrial (occasionally on rotting wood on the ground)
Gills attached (notched, adnate, or subdecurrent), sometimes almost free in small mushrooms

Nolanea     Genus Cap up to 2" across; acutely conical when young, sometimes becoming umbonate in age; often silky but not scaly Dull colored (shades of greyish brown) or brightly colored (usually yellow or salmon orange), but not really darkly colored Gills barely attached to the stalk, sometimes appearing free Stalk thin, fragile

Links from Look-alikes Yellow Hygrocybe     Section Entire fruiting body yellow, golden, or yellowish orange No red coloration present

Diagnosis

• Entire fruiting body brightly colored, usually yellow or salmon orange
  
• Cap steeply conical, up to 1 1/4" across

Narrow down your identification:

Fruiting body yellow to yellowish orange
Umbo very sharp, forming a sort of spine in the middle of the cap
In woods, especially swamps and moist areas

Fruiting body salmon orange, the stalk sometimes developing a greenish tint in age (according to A. E. Bessette, D. W. Fischer & A. R. Bessette (1997) )
In humus, among mosses, sometimes on rotting logs

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