Summary:
Features include small size, a viscid red cap, decurrent gills that are white or ochraceous, a thin yellow stem, and inamyloid smooth spores that are slipper-shaped to cylindric to sausage-shaped and more or less constricted. The online Species Fungorum gives the current name as Hygrocybe subminiata Murrill [as ''Hydrocybe''], Mycologia 3(4): 198 (1911).

Gills:
decurrent, subdistant, medium broad to narrow; whitish to ochraceous, (Hesler), decurrent, white or tinged yellowish buff, (Stuntz)

Stem:
3cm long and 0.2cm wide, slightly enlarged in upper part, round in cross-section, crooked; luteous; bald, (Hesler), 2.5-4cm x 0.15-0.3cm, yellow, (Stuntz)

Veil:
[presumably absent]

Microscopic spores:
spores 7-9 x 3.5-5 microns, subcylindric [somewhat cylindric] to more or less allantoid [curved sausage-shaped], at times slipper-shaped, more or less constricted, ends blunt, spores smooth, inamyloid; basidia 2-spored, 26-37 x 6-8 microns; pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia none; gill trama subparallel; cap cuticle a narrow gelatinous zone, 20-40 microns thick, "the hyphae repent, an ixocutis, or at times more or less erect"; no hypodermium differentiated; cap trama of radial hyphae; clamp connections present on cuticular hyphae, (Hesler)

Spore deposit:
[presumably white]

Notes:
Hesler(1) examined Hygrophorus subminiatus (Murrill) Murrill from WA, MI, NC, and Jamaica. There is a collection from BC at the University of British Columbia.

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Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Hygrophorus subminiatus (Murrill) Murrill