BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Mycena leptocephala (Pers.) Gillet, 1876 (Nitrous Bonnet)
| Notes (MWS) | A common, small toadstool with a grey pellucid-striate cap and a distinct 'alkaline' smell (like crushed poppy petals or pea pods). It is mainly a woodland species although sometimes also found in grassland where it is much confused with M. aetites. However, as well as microscopic differences, the latter has a slightly different smell (more like dirty ashtrays) |
| British records | 1900 |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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| Mycena leptocephala | toadstools, caulocystidia | 21 October 2005 | Berks | England | 1 | 6 | |
| Mycena leptocephala | Fruitbody | 10 October 2004 | West Kent | England | 6 | 12 | |
| Mycena leptocephala | Fruitbody | 8 October 1998 | Berks | England | 10 | 3 | |
| Mycena leptocephala | Fruitbody | 18 October 1978 | Surrey | England | 4 | ||
| Mycena leptocephala | Fruitbody | 18 October 1978 | Surrey | England | 5 |
Suggested Literature
Mycena leptocephala may be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Mycena leptocephala is associated with:
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fruitbody | Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees | fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed woody of debris | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | |
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fruitbody | Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees | fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed leaf of 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 dead, decayed woody of debris | 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 dead, decayed needle of 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 | Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide: http://www.bioimages.org.uk [contrary to the statement in Legon et al, 2005, this species does grow in grassland] |
Associated with Mycena leptocephala:
Mycena leptocephala may be associated with 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
| 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 |
