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Mycena arcangeliana Bres., 1904 (Angel's Bonnet)

Notes (MWS) A small toadstool with a grey cap that is yellowish-tinged towards the margin, and a strong smell of iodoform (Elastoplast). It grows on sticks and trunks of frondose trees. Previously called Mycena oortiana.

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Mycena arcangeliana Fruitbody 19 October 1982 Berks England 6

Suggested Literature

Mycena arcangeliana may 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)
TRICHOLOMATACEAE
(a family of toadstools)
Mycena
(a genus of bonnet toadstools)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Mycena arcangeliana is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Pteridium aquilinum - Bracken (Dennstaedtiaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed stem Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed wood Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed wood Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Fallopia japonica - Japanese Knotweed (Polygonaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed stem Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Pinopsida - conifers fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed wood Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Mycena arcangeliana:

Mycena arcangeliana may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)
Mycena
(a genus of bonnet 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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