BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Gymnopilus dilepis (Berk. & Broome) Singer, 1951 (a rustgill)
| Notes (MWS) | A beautiful toadstool which is bright purple when young, (resembling Tricholompsis rutilans but with a ring), rapidly fading to orange-brown. Originally from South East Asia where it grows on old coconut stumps, it was possibly introduced with coir imported for horticultural use as a peat replacement. It is one of a number of recent introductions and colonists which grow on wood chips. It is becoming more common and widespread in this habitat, but requires warmth so is restricted to large piles of chips which are heating up through fermention, or indoors in pots with house plants. This is one of a complex of very similar species in South East Asia and Australasia and there's always the possibility of one of its close relatives also being present in this country. |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gymnopilus dilepis | Fruitbody | 18 October 2007 | Berks | England | 14 | 10 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Henrici, A., 2002 (Colour photograph (rear cover) and history) | Notes and Records (Jan 2002) |
| Watling, R., 1998 | Profiles of Fungi No 94: Gymnopilus dilepis |
General Works
| Henrici, A., 2004 | Notes and Records (July 2004) |
Gymnopilus dilepis may also be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Gymnopilus dilepis is associated with:
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fruitbody | Pinopsida - conifers | fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed, fermenting wood-chips | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide: http://www.bioimages.org.uk [on large piles of wood-chips which are heating up from fermentation] |
Associated with Gymnopilus dilepis:
Gymnopilus dilepis may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) |
AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools) |
References
| Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide: http://www.bioimages.org.uk | Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide |
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
