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Same site as last year's collection of this novel Hygrocybe. Growth from underneath Thuja plicata roots. All fruits less than 1 cm, entirely greasy to viscid. Mostly bright red with orange margin. Pressed tightly against soil and roots, densely clustered, springtails abundant on gills even when just opened.

Same as:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/64916933

Found in Abies, Pinus and Calocedrus decurrens dominant mixed hardwood/conifer forest, Shasta-Trinity National Forest
Growing on living Calocedrus decurrens "needles"
Red to rusty orange spherical pustules

Found in open and expansive lava fields with scattered Calocedrus decurrens, Abies, Pinus, and low-growing Chrysolepis sempervirens, Shasta-Trinity National Forest
Growing on Chrysolepis sempervirens leaves
Tiny black spherical pustules erupting from the epidermis of leaf, forming a circular shape, with dead leaf tissue surrounding

Found in Abies, Pinus and Calocedrus decurrens dominant mixed hardwood/conifer forest, Shasta-Trinity National Forest
Growing on the tissue of living Brassicaceae
Bight yellow spherical pustules growing on leaf surface, stem and covering the underside of leaves, more concentrated near the apex of the plant

Growing along roadcut in redwood forest. Pileus brown, minutely granular-scaly. Lamellae thick, widely spaced; yellow to white, widely attached to decurrent. Stipe bright yellow, brittle, dry, ornamented with white granular chevrons at the apex and bright white farina at base.

Mostly buried in mixed duff under Abies concolor, along snow melt drainage on steep hill (dry).

Large, mostly-enclosed, Discomycete with whitish exterior, opening by triangular rays, revealing purple hymenium.
Subhymenium textura angularis. Medullary excipulum textura globulosa. Ectal excipulum textura prismatica.

Asci with croziers, 8-spored, cylindrical, 276.9 - 314.37 (314.4) × 10.3 - 13.49 (13.5) µm; Q = (20.5) 20.52 - 30.67 (30.7) ; N = 5; Me = 296.1 × 11.9 µm ; Qe = 25.2.
Ascus apical ring and apical walls euamyloid (IKI+); immature ascogenous contents dextrinoid.
Paraphyses pigemented, simple, clavate; apex 5.3 - 5.9 thick, 2.6 - 3 µm thick below.
Ascospores smooth, hyaline, guttulate, elliptical, aseptate, (13.9) 14.3 - 16.7 (18.2) × (6.5) 6.8 - 8.3 (8.8) µm; Q = (1.7) 1.9 - 2.2 (2.4) ; N = 30; Me = 15.4 × 7.6 µm ; Qe = 2.

Found in subalpine, snowmelt-fed vernal meadow on the edge of a burned forest off of Alder Springs Road, Mendocino National Forest
Growing on sodden, decomposing Achillea millefolium stems
Tiny, black, hard football shaped to circular masses

Found in conifer-dominant subalpine forest southeast of Anthony's Peak, Mendocino National Forest
Growing in Abies duff near snow under Abies magnifica and Abies concolor, looked as if there was a low intensity burn in the area
Pileus smooth, waxy, depressed, slightly sulcate, dark brown in center becoming lighter near margin, hygrophanous. Lamellae broadly attached to sub-decurrent, grey, sub-distant, waxy feeling. Stipe equal, fibrous, covered in fine white fibrils
Smell indistinct

Large patch with at least two Hygrocybe spp. under Rhus integrifolia and Heteromeles arbutifolia. Another patch nearby was under exclusively H. arbutifolia suggesting that that might be the important leaf litter association here. Stands out from other Southerb California Hygrocybe observations in that no bay laurel was in the area.

Up to 5 inches tall. Pale yellow, pileus conical when fresh becoming planar-convex retaining a slight umbo. Blackening. Gills white into maturity until blackening. Stipe yellow fading to white at bottom, bifurcated in some fruitboedies.

On the edge of a vineyard and forested tree-line near my home on a ridge in Sebastopol
Growing on leaves of Rubus ursinus which is crawling up a fence
Bright orange splotches on underside of leaf as well as growing on sepals of maturing berry

Mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest, private property in Gualala
Growing from soil nearby Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Pseudotsuga menziesii and Vaccinium ovatum
Teal earth tongues with irregular club-shaped head and ornamentation on stipe
Smell indistinct
Taste mild
Yellow/olive green KOH
Glows orange in UV, KOH glows super bright yellow/green