Family: Hygrophoraceae

Fungi:> Basidiomycota:> Agaricomycetes:> Agaricales:> Tricholomataceae:> Camarophyllus, Gliophorus, Humidicutis, Hygrocybe, Hygrophorus.

A large group of mostly small brightly coloured fungi that are saprophytic on leaf litter that have white spores.

Genus: Camarophyllus

A small genus with only 8 known species found in New Zealand. Most of which are dull in colour but 3 of them are bright orange. All have decurent gills and oviod spores.
Camarophyllus apricosus	Camarophyllus aurantiopallens	Camarophyllus muritaiensis	Camarophyllus patinicolor
Camarophyllus pratensis var. gracilis

Genus: Cuphophyllus

Cuphophyllus griseorufescens

Genus: Gliophorus

This genus distinguishes itself by having a cap and stem that is slimy to very slimy and in some cases a glutinous edge to the gills. With white spores.
Gliophorus chromolimoneus	Gliophorus fumosogriseus	Gliophorus graminicolor	Gliophorus lilacinoides
Gliophorus lilacipes	Gliophorus luteoglutinosus	Gliophorus pallidus	Gliophorus psittacinus
Gliophorus sulfureus	Gliophorus subheteromorphus	Gliophorus versicolor	Gliophorus viridis
Gliophorus viscaurantius

Undescribed Gliophorus Species

Gliophorus species

Genus: Humidicutis

This small genus of brightly coloured saprobic agarics is distinguished from the others wax-gills by the cap that split even in very young specimens. The split occurs in such a way as to pull apart the two faces of a single gill. Found growing in moss or leaf litter on the forest floor during late autumn with caps that are moist to visid.

Humidicutis conspicua

Humidicutis multicolor

Humidicutis mavis

Humidicutis rosella

Porpolomopsis lewelliniae

Humidicutis luteovirens

Undescribed Humidicutis Species

Humidicutis species

Genus: Hygrocybe

This is a large Genus in which many have waxy, translucent, texture, particularly evident in the gills. Some are drab in colour, but most are bright with striking colours. Commonly found during the colder and wetter months of the year sometimes in large numbers.
Hygrocybe astatogala	Hygrocybe species	Hygrocybe species	Hygrocybe blanda
Hygrocybe cantharellus	Hygrocybe cavipes	Hygrocybe cerinolutea	Hygrocybe conica
Hygrocybe elegans	Hygrocybe firma	Hygrocybe aff. firma (Red)	Hygrocybe aff. firma (Large Red)
Hygrocybe aff. firma (orange/yellow)	Hygrocybe fuliginata	Hygrocybe fuscoaurantiaca	Hygrocybe julietae
Hygrocybe keithgeorgii	Hygrocybe lilaceolamellata	Hygrocybe miniata	Hygrocybe miniceps
Hygrocybe procera	Hygrocybe rubrocarnosa	Hygrocybe striatolutea

Undescribed: Hygrocybe

Hygrocybe species

Genus: Hygrophorus

Genus: Neohygrocybe

Hygrophorus involutus

Hygrophorus salmonipes

Neohygrocybe squarrosa

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