How to identify it?
Cap
Cap 1-4 cm across, convex, becoming flatter; bright orange when young, becoming paler and duller with age; surface bald, and sticky to slimy when wet. Flesh insubstantial, soft, moist, pallid or orangish. Taste mild or slightly mealy.
Gills
Gills adnexed, pale salmon to yellow-orange, and with deeply colored, orange-red edges, close or crowded, with reddish-orange edges.
![Orange mycena (Mycena leaiana)](/wiki-image/1080/153981887637880842.jpeg)
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![Orange mycena (Mycena leaiana)](/wiki-image/1080/153981887637880842.jpeg)
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Scientific Classification
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Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Gilled fungi Family
Bonnet mushrooms Genus
Bonnets Species
Orange mycena