BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Hemimycena candida (Bres.) Singer, 1943 (a toadstool)

Notes (MWS) A small white toadstool with widely-spaced decurrent gills. It grows from the base of fading *Symphytum* plants.

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Hemimycena candida Fruitbody 17 October 2000 Berks England 9 9 11

Suggested Literature

Hemimycena candida 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)
Hemimycena
(a genus of bonnet toadstools)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Hemimycena candida is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Symphytum - comfreys (Boraginaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on decayed leaf (basal, base of) UK/Ireland Restricted Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide: http://www.bioimages.org.uk [fruitbodies appear around crown]

Associated with Hemimycena candida:

Hemimycena candida may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

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

References

Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide: http://www.bioimages.org.uk Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide
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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