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Have a look here https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/leratiomyces-ceres.php It’s definitely a Cuphophyllus and appears to be C. pratensis – Meadow Waxcap. Just looking a bit worse for wear.
It looks like the stem remain of a Pestele Puffball (Lycoperdon excipuliforme) These stems are like foam and linger for months after the spores have been released.
C. lepidopus was previously considered a variant of C. fornicatus which I think is still a species complex. So the general appearance is as fornicatus. There are scales on the base of the stipe and sometimes on the cap. If cut in two there is a colour change, a pink flush in the main context maybe with a little blue.
Although I have seen all these I have not seen this species enough to say what variation there is. It seems to be that the scales can be very well developed or not from what I have seen.
A nice find of Cuphophyllus ledidopus – Scalyfoot Waxcap In sheep grazed pasture near Rochdale.
This young one has much clearer scales than I have seen before.
The salmon flush to the gills is a good indicator but quieta is often pure yellow so keep in mind the dry and often widening stem and the emarginate gill attachment. And the smell, which I think of as smelling like an engineering workshop, seals the deal. Sometimes these smells take a bit of coaxing out though so you may want to crush the stem to get some juice out. The difference between cercacea and chlorophana can be obvious or more subtle. Adnate to decurrent gills in ceracea and adnexed gills in chlorophana is the simple difference. Sometimes it’s not that obvious.
Chlorophana, cap usually opaque and quite slimy. Ceracea cap often translucent and striate with thinner flesh.
Chlorophana stem slimy, solid coloured, often with white spores visible at the top, more than 5mm. Ceracea stem dry to greasy, pearlescent and less than 5mm.
The colours of both are anywhere in the yellow/orange range.
All that being said, what you have is H. quieta.
The final image is of H. quieta. Your description also fits with this species. The first two appear to be H. chlorophana. That would not have a dry cap and stem.
The third image also appears to be chlorophana but without seeing the gill attachment is difficult to know.
This one parasitises Galerina, probably pumila. The stouter one, paradoxum, parasitises Cystoderma amiamtheum. As does pearsonii which I saw last year.
Yes, another name change, previously Squamanita.
Dissoderma contortipes Found at two locations on good waxcap grassland site in the Peak District.
Shown alongside D. paradoxum, also prevalent at the site.
Spores subglobose 5.5 x 5
