Small to medium agaric, growing on bryophytes, with a white spore print. Pileus orange, not viscid. Lamellae decurrent. Stipe central. Partial veil remnants absent. Spores hyaline, non-amyloid, smooth; germ pore absent. Cheilocystidia absent. Lamellar trama interwoven. Pileipellis a cutis. Clamp connections absent.

Rickenella can be similarly coloured, and it grows on bryophytes, but it has clamp connections and conspicuous thick-walled caulocystidia. Lichenomphalia can be also orange and it lacks clamp connections, but the fruit-bodies arise from an algal mat.

Loreleia Redhead, Moncalvo, Vilgalys & Lutzoni, Mycotaxon 82: 162 (2002).

Two species: Loreleia postii (= Gerronema) and L. marchantiae (= Gerronema).

Loreleia postii (Fr.) Redhead, Moncalvo, Vilgalys & Lutzoni, Mycotaxon 82: 162 (2002).

Vic. and Tas. (and probably also N.S.W.).

In native forests, only after fire.

On the ground, always associated with bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).

Saprotrophic (possibly parasitic).

Breitenbach, J. & Kränzlin, F. (eds) (1991), Fungi of Switzerland. Volume 3. Boletes and Agarics 1st part. Edition Mykologia, Lucerne. [Illustration, Description and Microcharacters of L. marchantiae (as Gerronema) from Europe]

Fuhrer, B. (2005), A Field Guide to Australian Fungi. Bloomings Books, Hawthorn. [Description and Illustration of L. postii (as Gerronema)]

May, T.[W.] & Fuhrer, B. (1989), Notes on fungi occurring after fire in Australia. 1. Introduction and description of Gerronema postii, Vict. Naturalist 106: 133–137. [B&W Illustration, Description and Microcharacters of L. postii (as Gerronema)]