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Rhodocybe popinalis (Fr.) Singer, 1951 (a toadstool)

Notes (MWS) A small to medium-sized greyish toadstool with a mealy smell and bitter taste. Some forms turn black when bruised. It grows in grassland and on dunes, often on living or dead grasses. Widespread and not uncommon.
British records 89

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Rhodocybe popinalis Fruitbody 1 November 2006 Derby England 7 1
Rhodocybe popinalis Fruitbody 19 September 2006 Derby England 3 3
Rhodocybe popinalis Fruitbody 5 October 1998 Berks England 12
Rhodocybe popinalis Fruitbody 17 October 1997 Berks England 15

Suggested Literature

Rhodocybe popinalis 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)
ENTOLOMATACEAE
(pinkgills)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Rhodocybe popinalis is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Poaceae - grasses - formerly Graminae fruitbody is associated with Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on dunes and hill pasture]
Photos fruitbody Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees fruitbody is associated with Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Pinopsida - conifers fruitbody is associated with Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Rhodocybe popinalis:

Rhodocybe popinalis 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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