BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Mycena pura (Pers.) P. Kumm., 1871 (Lilac Bonnet)
| Notes (MWS) | A small lilac or pink toadstool smelling of radish. The toadstool is quite variable and a number of colour varieties have been described, some of which are often treated as species. It is poisonous containing 'Muscarine', the chemical originally thought to be the poisonous principle in *Amanita muscaria*. The species is very common throughout the British Isles in all types of woodland especially *Fagus* and is occasionally found in grassland. |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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| Mycena pura | Fruitbody | 7 October 1979 | West Sussex | England | 3 | 4 | |
| Mycena pura | Fruitbody | 7 November 1976 | East Sussex | England | 1 | ||
| Mycena pura | Fruitbody | 31 October 1976 | Surrey | England | 3 | 2 | |
| Mycena pura | Fruitbody | 28 September 1975 | Mid-west Yorkshire | England | 2 | ||
| Mycena pura | Fruitbody | 13 October 1974 | Berks | England | 1 |
Suggested Literature
Mycena pura may be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Mycena pura is associated with:
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fruitbody | Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees | fruitbody is saprobic on litter | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | |
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fruitbody | Pinopsida - conifers | fruitbody is saprobic on litter | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | |
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fruitbody | Poaceae - grasses - formerly Graminae | fruitbody is associated with | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 |
Associated with Mycena pura:
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fruitbody | fruitbody is parasitised by sporangium | Spinellus fusiger - Bonnet Mould (Mucorales: Phycomycetaceae) | 
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Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 |
Mycena pura may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) |
AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools) |
Mycena (a genus of bonnet toadstools) |
References
| Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 | Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook |
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
