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Collybia peronata (Bolton) P. Kumm., 1871 (Wood Woollyfoot)

Notes (MWS) A very common woodland toadstool with a shaggy base to the stem. It is a litter decomposer and often grows from a patch of bleached leaves.

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #notes
Collybia peronata Fruitbody 1 October 1979 Surrey England 3 4
Collybia peronata Fruitbody 30 September 1973 North-east Yorkshire England 2

Suggested Literature

Collybia peronata 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)
Collybia
(a genus of toadstools)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Collybia peronata is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees fruitbody is saprobic on decayed litter Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Pinopsida - conifers fruitbody is saprobic on decayed litter Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Collybia peronata:

fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by compact colony of Penicillium anamorph Penicillium brevicompactum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Eurotiales: Trichocomaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998

Collybia peronata may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and 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

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