BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Lepista irina (Fr.) H.E. Bigelow, 1959 (Flowery Blewits)

Notes (MWS)	An aromatic smelling, pale pinkish-brown toadstool that commonly grows in fairy rings on downland, in frondose woodland and gardens but always on calcareous soil.
British records	117
Distribution	A mainly southern species found as far north as Leicester.

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon	Summary	Date	Vice-county	Country
Lepista irina	Fruitbody	25 October 2006	Glam	Wales	2
Lepista irina?	Fruitbodies in field	13 October 2006	Derby	England	2
Lepista irina	toadstools: in situ, arrangement, close-ups, LS, spores	16 October 2005	Oxon	England	12	5

Lepista irina may be covered by literature listed under:

Lepista irina is associated with:

fruitbody	Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, rotting leaf of litter	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, rotting leaf of litter	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, rotting leaf of litter	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Pinopsida - conifers	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, rotting leaf of litter	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Cedrus - cedars (Pinaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, rotting leaf of litter	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Larix - larches (Pinaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, rotting leaf of litter	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Lepista irina:

Lepista irina may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

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