The fruit body is a mushroom. The circular cap is shallowly convex to flat, sometimes up to 5 centimetres in diameter, smooth, in shades of yellow towards the margin but orange-brown or red-brown towards the centre. The gills are initially yellow-green but are overlaid with dark grey to blackish tints as the spores mature. The stem often no more than 5 centimetres long (but sometimes longer) has colours similar to those of the cap.
A cobwebby partial veil (or cortina) is present in a young mushroom but very little evidence (often none of it remains once the cap has opened out.
The mushrooms usually grow in dense clusters, sometimes many tens to a cluster.
Spore print: dark purple brown. Given the clustered growth, it is common to see a dark spore deposit on the lower cap of an overlapping pair.
Found on dead wood in a variety of habitats.
Hypholoma fasciculare is listed in the following regions:
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Isaacs Ridge Isaacs Ridge and Nearby Lower Cotter Catchment Mongarlowe River QPRC LGA Scott Nature Reserve Tallaganda State Forest Tidbinbilla Nature ReservePlaces
Charleys Forest, NSW Cotter River, ACT Harolds Cross, NSW Isaacs, ACT Mulloon, NSW O'Connor, ACT Paddys River, ACT Uriarra Village, ACT Watson, ACT