Spores: medium-sized, ellipsoid, pale golden yellow under the microscope, smooth and 9-11 × 5-6 µm in size.
Marginal cystidia: club-shaped, cylindrical and with distinct rounded heads.
Facial cystidia: absent.
General Information: G. mniophila (Lasch) Kühner is similar to or slightly larger than C. mycenopsis, but differs in its dull honey-coloured cap and stem, and distinctly roughened spores. G. calyptrata P. D. Orton is small and has been long confused with G. hypnorum; it, however, is of a much brighter orange-colour, with distinct white fibrils on the cap and has spores which have a distinct envelope, sometimes separating as a loose covering. G. vittaeformis (Fries) Moser is a red-brown fungus with 2-spored basidia, facial cystidia, minutely hairy stem, and very rough spores; it grows in moss in pastures as well as on moss-cushions.
(vi) Heath and mountain fungi
(a) Moorland fungi
Marasmius androsaceus (Fries) Fries Horse-hair toadstool
Cap: width 5-15 mm. Stem: width 1 mm; length 30-60 mm.
Description: [Plate 77].
Cap: whitish to pale smoke-brown with a distinct wine-coloured tinge, membranous, flattened, or umbilicate and radially wrinkled.