Conocybe aurea is a basidiomycete fungus in the family Bolbitiaceae.

[2][3] The fungus was first described to science in 1930 by German mycologist Julius Schäffer, who called it Galera aurea.

hololeuca, but this taxon is not considered to have independent taxonomic significance by Index Fungorum.

[6] Conocybe aurea is a saprobic fungus that prefers to grow in nitrate-rich soils, fields, woodchip mulch, old compost, and greenhouses.

[6] Cap: 0.8-2.2 cm wide or more, starting globose to campanulate before expanding to convex.

The interior is hollow and the exterior surface is pruinose with striations and pale yellowish but often discolours to a brownish yellow (fulvous).

[9] Conocybe apala is common, but with a whiter and more fragile conical cap.