BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Mycena speirea (Fr.) Gillet, 1876 (Bark Bonnet)

Notes (MWS) A small greyish Mycena with arcuate decurrent gills and a pruinose stipe. It is is very common all year round on woody debris, especially in wet places.

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Mycena speirea Fruitbody 30 November 2003 Berks England 13 1 13
Mycena speirea Fruitbody 19 July 1980 North Wiltshire England 8
Mycena speirea Fruitbody 26 September 1975 Mid-west Yorkshire England 1

Suggested Literature

Mycena speirea 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 speirea is associated with:

Photos toadstool Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees toadstool is saprobic on dead, fallen, decaying bark Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos toadstool Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees toadstool is saprobic on dead, fallen, decaying wood of debris Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos toadstool Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees toadstool is saprobic on dead, fallen, decaying, moss-covered trunk (large) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos toadstool Pinopsida - conifers toadstool is saprobic on dead, fallen, decaying trunk Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos toadstool Pinopsida - conifers toadstool is saprobic on dead, fallen, decaying bark Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Mycena speirea:

Mycena speirea 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

Creative Commons License
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by
Malcolm Storey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales