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Coprinopsis stercorea (an inkcap)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Coprinopsis stercorea Fruitbody 7 February 1982 Berks England 16

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Richardson, M., 2003 (Colour photograph) Coprophilous fungi
van Waveren, E.K., 1968 The 'Sterocorarius gruop' of the genus Coprinus

Coprinopsis stercorea may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)
Coprinopsis
(a genus of inkcaps)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Coprinopsis stercorea is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Herbivores - Mammalian Herbivores fruitbody is saprobic in/on dung or excretions of weathered, old, water-logged dung Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Coprinopsis stercorea:

Coprinopsis stercorea may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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